Week of January 26-30, 2009:
(1). Read Cody & Smith
Chapter 1 and Chapter 12 Sections A,B,E.
(2). Work through the
"DatEntry" script for practice, located in www.math.umd.edu/~evs/s430/Scripts/DatEntry.Log.
(3). Work through the
"LEC2Log" SAS session summary, located in www.math.umd.edu/~evs/s430/NewLogs/LEC2log.F08.
Week of February 2-6, 2009:
(1). Read sections 2.A-2.C
of Cody & Smith, along with definitions of the basic descriptive
statistics (sample moments,
sample quantiles, and `empirical
distribution function') in whatever introductory statistics book you
learned from.
(2). Work through the
"DescrStat" script, located in www.math.umd.edu/~evs/s430/Scripts/DescrStat.Log.
Week of February 9-13, 2009:
(1). Read the rest of
Chapter 2 of Cody & Smith, along with the handouts on
Plotting in SAS,
Empirical Distribution Functions, and Scaled Relative Frequency Histograms.
(2). Work through the
"GraphScr1.Log" and "GraphScr2.Log" scripts, located in www.math.umd.edu/~evs/s430/Scripts/.
Week of February 16-20, 2009:
(1). Read Chapter 3,
Sections A-I, N, O.
(2). Work through the
LEC9log.F08 Log and FreqExmp.Log and Freq2.Log Scripts.
Week of February 23-27, 2009:
(1). Finish Chapter 3,
including 3.Q and Log S09LECLOG.2 (in "NewLogs") and Script MHexamp09.Log.
(2). More practice on
plots with GraphScr1.Log and GraphScr2.Log Scripts.
(3). Material on Formats
in printing and frequency tabulation: Ch.3 sections plus Format.Log Script.
Week of March 2-6, 2009:
(1). Read Chapter 6 (Sec
A, B, E, F) on T-tests and work through TTest.Log Script.
(2). Chapter 5 Sections A-E on
correlations and partial correlations, plus Scripts Corr.Log and
tempCorr.
Week of March 9-13, 2009:
(1). Read the rest of
Chapter 5.
(2). Work through the
Scripts Corr.Log and tempCorr and the log LEC17log.F08 in "NewLogs".
Week of March 23-27, 2009:
(1). Read about
random-number functions in SAS and programming with arrays. (Ch.15,
also Ch 17.C).
(2). Work through the Log
NewLogs/LEC17log.F08 and the worksheet Handouts/PartialCorr.pdf.
Week of March 30-April 3, 2009:
(1). Test and test
corrections. Reading repeats readings from previous week: Partial
Correlation
Handout and worksheet plus Ch,15 and 17C material on
random numbers and arrays.
(2). Work through Log on Match-Merge.
(3). Work through script
on on simulated regression data and
outlier-detection plots.
April 6-10, 2009:
(1). Simple Linear
regression "theory" handout.
(2). Work though script
on Prediction Intervals.
(3). Read Chapter 9 Sections
A-E.
April 13-17, 2009:
(1). Continue with Chapter
9. (Review multiple regression from Math Stat. text, Stat 401 or
other.)
(2). Work through script
Scripts/PlotRsds.txt.
April 20-24, 2009:
(1). Read Chapter 7 on
ANOVA and work through MultReg Scripts.
(2). Continue reading
Chapter 9 including Dummy variable topic.
April 27-May 1, 2009:
(1). Continue with Chapter
7.
(2). Review material on
arrays, related to dummy variables and simulation.