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CSC 423 -- Course Documents

• Project Submission Guidelines
   
• SAS Installation Instructions
   
• R Installation Instructions
   
• Matrix Review
   
• The Cauchy-Schwartz Inequality
   
• Definitions and Properties of Random Variables   Technical Details
   
• Statistical Tables
   
• Probability Functions in SAS and R
   
• R Documents and Tutorials
  Class Notes, Jost:
  Introduction to R
   
  Using R for Exploratory Data Analysis Modified from Venables and Smith, An Introduction to R:
  cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html
   
  Kelly Black, R Tutorial:
  www.cyclismo.org/tutorial/R/index.html
   
  Robert Kabakoff, Quick R:
  www.statmethods.net
   
  Emmanuel Paradis, R for Beginners:
  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Paradis-rdebuts_en.pdf
   
  
  
• SAS Documents
  
  Introduction to SAS
   
  Randall Cates, MISSOVER, TRUNCOVER, and PAD, OH MY!! or Making Sense of the INFILE and INPUT Statements
  www.albany.edu/~msz03/epi514/papers/truncover.pdf
  
  
• Official Kilogram Prototype Mysteriously Losing Weight
   
• General Remarks about One and Two-sample Tests of Hypothesis  
   
• Detailed Test Descriptions with Sample Problems
  
  One Sample z-test    One Sample t-test
  Paired Two-sample z-test    Paired Two-sample t-test
  Independent Two-sample z-test   Independent Two-sample t-test
  
  
• Young and Karr, Deming, data and observational studies. A process out of control and needing fixing
   
• Correlation and Covariance
   
• Linear Regression: Three Regression Models
   
• Derivations of the Least Squares Equations for Four Models
   
• Residual Analysis
   
• The F-test for Linear Regression
   
• Matrix Form of Regression Model
   
• Influence Points and Multicollinarity (SAS Reference)
   
• R Functions for Regression: A Reference Card by Vito Ricci
   
• Installing and Using an R Package
   
• Reading Delimited Text Files into SAS 9
   
• An Introduction to SAS Character Functions, by Ronald Cody
   
• Missing Values
   
  
  Multiple Imputation for Missing Data, SAS/STAT Software Enhancements
   
  Missing Data in Regression Analysis, by Yoel Haitovsky
   
  Multiple Imputation for Missing Data: Concepts and New Development (Version 9.0), by Yang C. Yuan
  
  
• Model Selection and Validation
   
  
  Model Selection
   
  External Model Validation
   
  Criteria for Model Selection
   
  Introducing the GLMSELECT PROCEDURE for Model Selection, Robert A. Cohen, SAS Institute Inc. Cary, NC
   
  SAS GLMSelect Manual
  
  
• Topics in Categorical Data Analysis