Data Analysis I

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Stat 427/527 Advanced Data Analysis I

Fall 2005

Minitab

We will use the Minitab software package for our calculations. This is a very nice, easy package to
use with good support and documentation. The following information is on Ron Schrader's home
page (as well as similar information for other packages).

Documentation	Availability (as far as I know)	A few Useful Links
Online at Minitab (mostly installed with software, too)	- CIRT Pod (public) - ESC Pod South (public) - Math/Stat dept. lab (not public) - Med 2 classroom (not public) - Room 226 HSC library (for MPH, not public) - 4 special computers in HSC library (for MPH - not public)	Inexpensive rentals Indiana University The University of Reading (Most links on the web are for obsolete versions, but the above are current)

You should purchase (rent) a license for the software if at all possible (see the "Inexpensive rentals"
link above). A 5 month rental is only $30.

Lecture Notes

The lecture notes used the past few years have become somewhat dated and are under substantial
revision. The revisions are not complete - notes will be posted as soon as I can finish them (but
hopefully a week before you need them). You will need to print them before class. They are in
pdf form, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

The old notes are on Professor Bedrick's page - follow this link. At least that will let
you know where we're headed.

New Notes:

1. Introduction to Statistical Packages

2. Summarizing and Displaying Data

3. Estimation in One Sample Problems

Normal Distribution Tables and t-Tables (both from SW)

4. Two-Sample Inferences

5. Checking Assumptions

6. One-Way Analysis of Variance | Description of CHDS data | CHDS data

7. Nonparametric Methods

8. Categorical Data Analysis

9. Intro. to Correlation and Regression | Blood Loss Analysis

10. Model Checking and Regression Diagnostics

11. Transformations in Regression (with apologies, these are the old notes. Page
            numbers don't follow from above, and this is tied to an old version of
            Minitab. We will go through analyses in class using the current version).

               Data (Minitab Worksheets): Wind Speed | Brain Weights

Homework

Homework 1 due 9/8/05 | Grader's comments

Homework 2 due 9/22/05 | Data for problem 2

Homework 3 due 9/29/05

Homework 4 due 10/11/05

Homeworks 5 and 6 due 11/1/05 | Data for problem 3

Homeworks 7 and 8 due 11/10/05

Homework 9 due 12/1/05

FINAL EXAM

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