STA442/2101: Methods of Applied Statistics
University of Toronto, Fall 2011
http://www.utstat.toronto.edu/~brunner/appliedf11
Lecture: Friday 2:10-5:00 in SS1085.
Note: I do not read my email every day, and the problem tends to get worse as the term progresses. It is much more efficient to talk with me before or after class, or during office hours.
Text: There is no textbook for this course at the bookstore. Online materials will be available on the course home page.
Topics: Large-sample tools, Simulation, Likelihood methods, Normal linear models, Factorial ANOVA, Multiple comparisons, Power and sample size, Random effects, Multivariate linear models, Within-cases designs, Logistic regression and other generalized linear models, Permutation tests, Bootstrapping. We will use R and SAS.
Prerequisite: For STA2101, a course in linear regression; for STA442, STA303 or equivalent.
Grading: There will be a quiz each week in lecture, starting Friday September 23d. There will also be a comprehensive final exam.
There will be eleven quizzes. The lowest quiz mark will be dropped. There will be an assignment for each quiz. The knowledge you need to do each quiz is a subset of the knowledge you need to do the corresponding assignment. Some (most) of the assignments include a computer part. You will bring printouts to the quiz and answer questions based on the printouts. Possibly, one of the quiz questions will be to hand in a printout. The non-computer parts of the assignments are just to prepare you for the quizzes; they will never be handed in.
Policy for missed work: If you miss a quiz, the mark is zero. However, your lowest quiz mark will be dropped. If you miss a quiz with a valid excuse, your mark on the final exam will be substituted for the missing quiz mark.
Plagiarism: It is academic dishonesty to present someone else's work as your own, or to allow your work to be copied for this purpose. To repeat: the person who allows her/his work to be copied is equally guilty, and subject to disciplinary action by the university.
Here are some guidelines that apply to the computer assignments. It is fine to discuss the assignments and to learn from each other, but don't copy. Never look at anyone else's printouts or show anyone yours before the quiz or exam when they might be handed in. Above all, do not allow to see your program file before a computer assignment is due, and do not look at anyone else's.
For some quizzes, you will be asked to bring your printouts to class; maybe you will hand them in, and maybe you will use them to answer some questions. Never, ever, bring a copy of somebody else's printout, or allow anyone to have a copy of yours.
Don't copy. If we catch you, you will get in big trouble. And even if we do not catch you, after you die you will be reincarnated as a tadpole in a polluted stream.
If this is not clear enough, the latest version of the student handout "How not to Plagiarize" is available at http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-sources/how-not-to-plagiarize The Academic Regulations of the University are outlined in the Code of Behaviour on Academic matters, which can be found in the Arts and Science Calendar or on the web at http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/policies/behaveac.htm.