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08-26

08-28

Review of prerequisite topics

Drawing statistical conclusions

Ch. 1, The Statistical Sleuth

Background material in Moore & McCabe (M&M): Ch. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

Lecture 1 Notes

Useful Applets:

Confidence Interval Applet

Is this distribution unimodal or bimodal?: Choosing bin size for histograms

Central Limit Theorem Applet

Lab 0: Intro to Splus

Review session, Wednesday, August 27, 5:00-7pm, Room to be announced

Homework 1due August 29, 5pm, LSRC A125.

2

09-02

09-04

Inference using t-distributions

Ch 2, Sleuth

Background: M&M Ch 7 (skip 7.3). Read 7.2 focusing on pooled two-sample t test.

Reading "Paired tests/Devore" (on e-reserve under "McBride"

Discussion of sample writeup of a statistical analysis, Lecture notes on t-tools

Lecture notes: Re-expressing data

Homework 2 due Friday Sept 5, 5pm, LSRC A125

Sept. 5: last day to drop/add

3

09-09

09-11

A closer look at assumptions

Power

Ch 3, Sleuth;

Reading "Re-expressing Data" from IntroStats by DeVeaux on e-reserve under "McBride"

Background: M&M 2.6. Also material on robustness of the t-tools; p. 533.

Lecture notes on power

Try this very useful Power Applet

Homework 3 due Friday Sept 12 at NOON to A125

4

09-16

09-18

Power Analysis continued

Reading on Power from Devore on e-reserve under "McBride"

Foster, J.R. "Statistical Power in Forest Monitoring", Forest Ecology and Management, 151 (2000) 211-222.Focus on pages 211-216 for a review of concepts. You may find the case study interesting.

Homework 4 due Friday Sept 19, NOON

5

09-23

09-25

Review

Midterm 1, Thursday, 9/25 in class

6

09-30

10-02

Comparisons among several samples

Chapter 5, Sleuth

Background: M&M 12.1

1. Lab Notes: Intro to ANOVA

2. ANOVA lecture notes

3. the F distribution

4. Useful applet: relationship between spooled, F, and p-value. Go to Ch 12, click "Statistical Applets" on the left panel, and scroll down to the 2nd to last applet, "One-way ANOVA".

Homework 5 due Friday NOONto S. McBride's mailbox in LSRC mailroom

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7

10-07

10-09

Comparisons among several samples

Multiple comparisons and Linear combinations of means

Chapter 5, Sleuth

Chapter 6, Sleuth

Background: M&M 12.2

Begin searching for a topic for final poster presentation

Homework 6 (optional)

10/10: MEM Students: Reporting of mid-semester grades (if “S” or lower) to NSEES Director of Professional Studies & NSEES advisor

8

10-14

10-16

Fall Break, no class 10-14

2-way ANOVA

Moore & McCabe, Ch 13

Chapter 13, Sleuth, focus on first case study (seagrazers)

Writing Assignment assigned Thurs. 10/16, due 10/23.

9

10-21

10-23

2-way ANOVA

Randomized block designs, additive/non-additive models, multiple comparisons.

Inference for unbalanced designs.

Writing assignment due 10/23 at 12:40pm, no late papers

Solution sketch for linear combination in Writing Assignment

10

10-28

10-30

2-way ANOVA & Review

Midterm 2

Exercises 1-9 for Lab

Practice quiz from 2002

Thursday, 10-30: Midterm 2 in class

Brief Project Analysis Plan due Fri, Oct 31, 5pm to DIGITAL DROPBOX in Blackboard

11

11-04

11-06

Random Effects Models

Random effects ANOVA reading

Lab: Review of unbalanced designs in two-way ANOVA

Writing Assignment 2, Assigned November 2, Due November 11 at 12:40pm

12

11-11

11-13

Non-parametric approaches

Permutation and Randomization tests in Ch1, Sleuth

Ch. 4 of Sleuth; Kruskal-Wallis at end of Ch 5 of Sleuth

Background Reading: Chapter 14 of Moore & McCabe

Lab:

• Random effects example with solution

• Non-parametric tests in Splus: Ex 28 p. 107 of Sleuth; Ex 29 p. 108 of Sleuth; Redo the Vegetarians & Zinc ANOVA using Kruskal Wallis.

More practice problems

13

11-18

11-20

Chapter 15, Sleuth, pgs. 437-445, Section 15.4, pgs. 450-452

Discussion of projects with examples from past years

Dealing with temporal correlation

Lab: Review

Chapter 15 Conceptual exc: 1,3,4,5. Exercise 10, p. 458.

14

11-25

11-30

Extensions, Overview

Project Presentations, Thursday, Nov. 20, 4-8pm

No class 11-30, Thanksgiving Holiday

15

12-02

Reading Week

16

12-10

Final Exam will be self scheduled. Allow yourself 3 hours to complete the exam during the hours of 8:30-5pm. in room A247 of LSRC. Information on self-scheduled exams can be found in the bulletin.