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STA244 Linear Models

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Readings:

Statistical Inference - Casella and Berger (CB) (or any Mathematical Statistics text)
Plane Answers to Complex Questions: The Theory of Linear Models - Christensen (C)
Matrix Algebra from a Statistician's Perspective - Harville (H)

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Date	Topic	References	Handouts	Assignments
1/08	Introduction to Linear Models MLE's in SLR	CB:Chapter 5, 11		HW1 due 1/15
1/13	Sampling Distributions and Testing in SLR	CB:Chapter 5, 11
1/15	Vector Spaces Projections	C: Chapter 1, Appendix A, B		HW2
1/22	Mutivariate Normal Distribution Theory	C: Appendix B
1/27	Spectral Theorem, Singular Value Decomposition QR decompositions	C: Appendix B
1/29	Distributions of Quadratic Forms	C: Chapter 2, Appendix C,D		HW3
2/3	OLS, Gauss-Markov, and BLUE
2/5	Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation			HW4
2/10	Linear Models with General CovarianceStructure
2/12	Bayesian Estimation			HW5
2/17	Testing Hypotheses	C: Chapter 3
2/19
3/31	Diagnostics	C: CHapter 13
4/2	Diagnostics		Stack Loss diagnostics
4/7	Diagnostics	Chaloner and Brant bayes-outliers.R		HW7 rat.dat
4/23	Bayes Variable Selection	Adding Leaps package example	Christines's bayesreg.all.R ozone data (training, validation)
4/23	Final Exam	data for final.asc		due Thursday May 1, 2003

Updated April 23, 2003