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 simple linear regression program, edited output, and data (txt, xls)
SAS PROC REG manual page
Example SAS multiple linear regression program, edited output (doc, pdf), and data (txt)

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) and solutions
Homework 6 (handed out 11/13, due 11/25) with ischemic (heart) data (ischemic.txt, ischemic.xls, ischemic.csv) and SAT data (satdata.txt)

Exams:

2008 Midterm and solutions
2009 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 November 13, 2009