STATISTICS 210 - STATISTICAL METHODS I: LINEAR MODELS

Fall Quarter 2009
Lecture: M W F  11:00am-11:50am in ET 204

Discussion: T 4:00pm-4:50pm in ICS 243  (NOTE NEW ROOM)

    instructor: Hal Stern
        office: 2216 Computer Science
         phone: 949-824-1568
         email: sternh@uci.edu
  office hours: M 12:00-1:00pm  


Course documents will be made available here:

Syllabus
SAS - Running SAS
SAS - Language Guide
Programs and data for SAS intro and t-test demonstration (raindata.sas, raindata2.sas, rainfall data as text or xls)
Example SAS ANOVA program (save link as a text file) and output
Example SAS randomized block program, output, and data (txt, xls)
Example SAS regression program, edited output, and data (txt, xls)
SAS PROC REG manual page

A couple of interesting articles about p-values and .05 cutoff:
The Earth is Round (p < .05) by J. Cohen, American Psychologist, 1994
On the Tyranny of Hypothesis Testing in the Social Sciences by G. R. Loftus, Contemporary Psychology, 1991

Homeworks:

Homework 1 (handed out 9/30, due 10/7) and solutions 
Homework 2 (handed out 10/7, due 10/14) with SENIC data (senic.txt, senic.xls, senic.csv) and solutions
Homework 3 (handed out 10/14, due 10/21) with prostate data (prostate.txt, prostate.xls, prostate.csv) and solutions
Homework 4 (handed out 10/21, due 10/28) with weed control data (weedctrl.txt, weedctrl.xls, weedctrl.csv) and solutions
Homework 5 (handed out 10/28, due 11/11) with ischemic (heart) data (ischemic.txt, ischemic.xls, ischemic.csv)


Exams:

2008 Midterm and solutions

Lecture Notes:

Initial lecture notes (thru 10/21)  
Lecture notes - part II (thru approx 11/25) 
Lecture notes - part III (with bonus material!!) 


Last updated October 28, 2009