STA244 Linear Models

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Date
Topic
References
Handouts
Assignments
1/8

Introduction to Linear Model

Random Vectors, Matrices

C: Chapter 1, Appendix A & B

 

 

1/13

Multivariate Normal Distribution Theory

C: Chapter 1, Appendix A & B

 

HW 1 (due 1/20)

1/15

Conditional Normal Distributions

C: Chapter 1 Appendix B and C
   
1/20

Spectral and Singular Value Decompositions

Quadratic Forms

C: Appendix B

 
1/22

Distributions of Quadratic Forms

Orthogonal Projections

C:Appendix B
 
HW2 (due 1/29)
1/27

More Distributional Results

Models
Maximum Likelihood Estimates

Casella & Berger 166, Chapter 5,
C: Appendix C

C: Chapter 2

   
1/29

Identifiability & Estimation

C: Chapter 2

 
HW3 (due 2/12)
2/3

Gauss-Markov

C: Chapter 2
   
2/5

Bayesian Regression

C: Chapter 2
   
2/10

Bayesian Regression

C: Chapter 2
 

 

2/12
Marginal & Predictive Distributions
   
2/17
Reference Priors

Likelihood Ratio Tests
C: Chapter 3

 

HW 4
2/19

ANOVA & F-tests

C. Chapter 3

C: Chapter 6

Meadowfoam code

Meadowfoam data

output

 
2/24
Model Comparison

C. Chapter 4 & 6

Lack of Fit
 
2/26
Lack of Fit Test

C Chapter 6

 
3/3
Influence & Outliers
C. Chapter 13

Diagnostics
R-code
data

HW 5

Meadowfoam data

3/5

Influence & Outliers
C. Chapter 13

 

 
3/17
Bayesian Outlier Analysis

Chaloner & Brant

 

stackloss output

stackloss.R

bayes-outliers.R

 
3/19
Variance Inflation Outliers
Hoeting et al

 

 
3/24
Box-Cox Transformations
C. Chapter 13

boxcox-ex.R

box-cox-ex

 
3/26
Midterm
Exams from 2003, 2004
   
3/31
Variable Selection
     
4/2
Bayesian Variable Selection

Statistical Science (2004) article on Model Uncertainty

 

   
4/7
Bayesian Model Choice/Averaging

JASA (2008) Mixtures of g-priors

BAS package & Documentation

   
4/9
Longley Example
longley.R

 

 
4/14
Ridge Regression & Shrinkage Methods
shrinkage.R

 

 

Take Home Data Analysis

 

   

 


Updated April 17, 2009