Prerequisite: Stat 400. The material needed is mostly definitions
and concepts, and
some basic algebraic manipulations involving probabilities. But later
in the course,
some understanding of Stat 400 material on distributions of functions
of random
variables will help you make sense of statistical simulation methods.
(That material
will be reviewed as needed.)
Text: Ronald Cody and Jeffrey Smith, Applied Statistics and
the SAS Programming Language,
4th ed., Prentice-Hall, 1997.
Click here
to find a copy of the course outline and the first problem assignment.
(1) Handouts related to Homework Assignments
Click here to find a cumulatively updated list of all Homework Assignments and due-dates.
Click here
to find the solutions for Homeworks 1 to 3, here
for solutions to
Homeworks 4 and 5, here
for solutions to Homeworks 6 and 7, and here
for Homework 8.
Click here to find
a directory of available Datasets.
(2) Handouts related to Tests/Exams
As announced, the first in-class test will be on Friday October 19,
2001. It will cover
material from Chapters 1 through the beginning of 6, with related material
(as covered in
class) on SAS syntax and PROC's which can be found in Chapters 11--14
and 20.
Click here
for a sample test indicating coverage by topics along with some
sample questions. The solutions to the Sample Test can be found here.
(3) ADDITIONAL HANDOUTS RELATED TO STATISTICAL MATERIAL
For a handout discussing the relative interpretability of relative
risks and odds
ratios in analyzing two-way frequency-table datasets, click here.
(4) ADDITIONAL HANDOUTS RELATED TO SAS
Click here
to find out how to download the shell code that you will need to run SAS
on the UNIX workstations.
Once you have installed this software, you can run SAS on the SUN machines
found here.
Click here for a handout on Creating Plots and Charts in SAS.
Click here
for a cumulatively updated page summarizing little SAS programs
discussed in class, which worked to do various tasks.