This table gives a tentative timetable for the course. Everything in it (including possibly the dates of exams and homeworks) is subject to change.
Chapter, section and problem numbers are from Conover, Practical Nonparametric Statistics, Third Edition (Wiley, 1999). ISBN 978-0-471-16068-7
| Monday | Wednesday | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Wednesday | |
| Wk01 |
Jan 16
No Class (Martin Luther King Day) |
Jan 18
Lesson 00.1: Introduction to the Course and Setting up Computing Environment
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| Wk02 |
Jan 23
Lesson 01.1: Basics of Probability and Random Variables Chapter 1: Probability Theory; Sections 1.1-1.5 See also MATH 251 Notebooks Problem Set 0 (ungraded) due |
Jan 25
Lesson 01.2: Random Samples, Inference and Confidence Intervals Chapter 2: Statistical Inference; Sections 2.1-2.2 Bonus notebook on Monte Carlo and confidence intervals |
| Wk03 |
Jan 30
Lesson 02.1: Hypothesis Testing Chapter 2: Statistical Inference; Sections 2.3-2.5 Problem Set 1 due |
Feb 1
Lesson 02.2: The Binomial Test Chapter 3: Some Tests Based on the Binomial Distribution; Section 3.1
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| Wk04 |
Feb 6
Lesson 03.1: The Quantile Test and The Sign Test Chapter 3: Some Tests Based on the Binomial Distribution; Sections 3.2 & 3.4 Problem Set 2 due |
Feb 8
Lesson 03.2: Confidence Intervals for Quantiles Chapter 3: Some Tests Based on the Binomial Distribution; Section 3.2 |
| Wk05 |
Feb 13
Lesson 04.1: The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test Chapter 5: Some Methods Based on Ranks; Section 5.7 Problem Set 3 due |
Feb 15
Lesson 04.2: The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Rank Sum Test Chapter 5: Some Methods Based on Ranks; Section 5.1 |
| Wk06 |
Feb 20
Lesson 05.1 Measures of Power and Efficiency Chapter 2: Statistical Inference; Section 2.4 Problem Set 4 due |
Feb 22
Review for Prelim Exam 1 |
| Wk07 |
Feb 27
FIRST PRELIM EXAM (Lessons 01.1-04.2) |
Mar 1
Lesson 05.2: The Kruskal-Wallis Test Chapter 5: Some Methods Based on Ranks; Section 5.2 |
| Wk08 |
Mar 6
Lesson 06.1: The Conover Squared Ranks Test Chapter 5: Some Methods Based on Ranks; Section 5.3 Problem Set 5 due |
Mar 8
Lesson 06.2: Measures of Rank Correlation Chapter 5: Some Methods Based on Ranks; Section 5.4 |
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Mar 13
No Class (Spring Break) |
Mar 15
No Class (Spring Break) |
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| Wk09 |
Mar 20
Lesson 07.1: The Friedman and Quade Tests Chapter 5: Some Methods Based on Ranks; Section 5.8 Problem Set 6 due |
Mar 22
Lesson 07.2: The Kolmagorov Test Chapter 6: Statistics of the Kolmagorov-Smirnov Type; Section 6.1 |
| Wk10 |
Mar 27
Lesson 08.1: Tests for Familiies of Distributions Chapter 6: Statistics of the Kolmagorov-Smirnov Type; Section 6.2 Problem Set 7 due |
Mar 29
Lesson 08.2: The Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Related Two-Sample Tests Chapter 6: Statistics of the Kolmagorov-Smirnov Type; Section 6.3 |
| Wk11 |
Apr 3
Lesson 09.1: The Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Test Chapter 4: Contingency Tables; Section 4.5 Problem Set 8 due |
Apr 5
Review for Prelim Exam 2 |
| Wk12 |
Apr 10
SECOND PRELIM EXAM (Lessons 05.1-08.2) |
Apr 12
Lesson 09.2: Contingency Tables Chapter 4: Contingency Tables; Section 4.2 |
| Wk13 |
Apr 17
Lesson 10.1: Fisher's Exact Test Chapter 4: Contingency Tables; Section 4.1 Problem Set 9 due |
Apr 19
Lesson 10.2: Mood's Median Test Chapter 4: Contingency Tables; Section 4.3 |
| Wk14 |
Apr 24
Lesson 11.1: Cochran's Q Test Chapter 4: Contingency Tables; Section 4.6 Problem Set 10 due |
Apr 26
Project Presententations |
| Wk15 |
May 1
Project Presententations Problem Set 11 due |
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