Syllabus

STA 242/ENV 255:

APPLIED REGRESSION ANALYSIS

Course Schedule

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Week
Date
Topic
Reading
Assignment
Handouts
Lab
HW
Due
Date
Solution
1
 1/13 Course Overview Review
Ch 1-3, 5-6		 boxplots
t-test 		NO LAB
2
1/18 - 1/20 Simple Linear
Regression 		Ch 7 Meat Processing Example Lab & HW 1 1/25 5pm HW 1
3
2/1 - 2/3 Assumptions in
Simple Linear Regression 		Ch 8 ANOVA and Lack of Fit tests Transformations and Lack of Fit tests Lab & HW 2 2/9
5 pm 		HW 2
4
2/8 - 2/10 Multiple
Regression		 Ch 9 Dummy Variables and Multiple Regression Lab & HW 3 2/18 5 pm HW 3
5
2/15 - 2/17 Inference
in Regression 		Ch 10 Output for Extra Sum of Squares F-tests, Interpretation of Multiple Regression Lab & HW 4

Meets 2/23

2/25 5 pm HW 4
6
2/20 - 2/24 Model Checking
Diagnostics		 Ch 11 Case Diagnostics, Course Recap, More on F-tests, Partial Residuals (pdf) , Partial Residuals (postscript)
7
2/24, 2/27 Variable
Selection 		Ch 12 Model Selection in Ex 12.21 (pdf)
8
2/29 - 3/2 Stepwise
Variable Selection
Ch 12 Lab & HW 5 HW 5
9
3/7 - 3/9 Midterm
Exam Week 		Coverage Ch 7-11 Lab 6
10
3/10 - 3/20 Spring Break
11
3/21 - 3/23 Model Uncertainty
Ch 12 BMA(pdf) Take Home Exam solution
12
3/28 - 3/30 Comparisons for
Proportions 		Ch 18 - 19 Models for Bernoulli and Binomial data (pdf) Lab & HW 7 HW 7
13
4/4 - 4/6 Logistic Regression
for Binomial Counts		 Ch 20 - 21 Lab & HW 8 4/12 HW 8
14
4/11 - 4/13 Log-Linear Regression
for Poisson Counts 		Ch 22 Lab & HW 9 HW 9
15
4/18 - 4/20 TBA Lab
16
4/22-4/30 Graduate Reading Period
17
5/1-5/6 Final Exams Week
April 19, room and time TBA Poster Session

Important Dates

Midterm Exam 3/7
Take Home Exam Available 3/21
Due 3/29
Group Data Analysis
Poster Session 		April 19
Final Exam TBA