Homepage for MATH 5315, Fall 2006

Dr. Blair Sterba-Boatwright

Office: CI 303 Phone: 825-2724 E-mail: blair.sterbaboatwright@tamucc.edu

Schedule for Fall, 2006

Link to online datasets for the textbook
Link to other datasets for assignments
Link to potential project datasets
Link to excellent SPSS tutorial website (Thanks to Dr. Mike Speed at TAMU for making this available to us.)
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Week	Tuesday	Tuesday Lab	Thursday
Week 1: Aug. 21-25	No Class	No Meeting	First Day Handout Went over first day handout Topics covered: A couple of basic examples with a focus on sampling ideas
Week 2: Aug. 28-Sept. 1	Topics covered: Types of variables, histograms, measures of central tendency	The lab handout I should have had ready--covers opening SPSS, importing or typing in data, and how SPSS does basic graphs and descriptive statistics	Topics covered: When to use mean vs. when to use median; measures of dispersion, especially variance and standard deviation Standard Deviation example HW Assignment #1, due in class on Thursday, Sept. 7 Answer key to HW #1
Week 3: Sept. 4-8	Boxplots The Binomial distribution	Handouts on boxplots and using SPSS to calculate binomial probabilities	More on the binomial A brief introduction to the normal distribution HW Assignment #2, due in class on Thursday, Sept. 14 Answer key to HW #2 Answer key to qqnorm plot assignment
Week 4: Sept. 11-15	Computing probabilities with the normal distribution Normal distribution plots (aka qqnorm plots) and the Shapiro-Wilks test (we'll see Shapiro-Wilks again)	Handout on normal distribution plots	Central Limit Theorem HW Assignment #3, due in class on Thursday, Sept. 21 Answer key to HW #3
Week 5: Sept. 18-22	Confidence intervals	No handout; I worked examples about confidence intervals	Hypothesis Tests HW Assignment #4, due in class on Thursday, Sept. 28 (with automatic extension to noon, Friday, Sept. 29) Answer key to HW #4
Week 6: Sept. 25-29	Description of Project 1 Hypothesis tests, continued	Handout on various SPSS topics: verbal variables, one sample t-tests, Shapiro-Wilks test for normality Also discussed Type I/II error	Type II error t-tests HW Assignment #5, due in class on Thursday, Oct. 5 (with automatic extension to noon, Friday, oct. 6) Answer key to HW #5
Week 7: Oct. 2-6	Two sample t-tests	Handout on SPSS & Chapter 6: independent and paired samples, Wilcoxon tests	More on two sample t-tests Handout for Midterm Exam Practice problems for the Midterm (corrected) Answer key to practice problems
Week 8: Oct. 9-13	Wilcoxon rank sum test	paired t-test Wilcoxon signed rank test Exam review	Midterm Exam
Week 9: Oct. 16-20	Analysis of Variance	Analysis of Variance Returned, went over Midterm	Project 1 due Analysis of Variance HW Assignment #7, due in class on TUESDAY Oct. 31 Answer key to HW #7
Week 10: Oct. 23-27	Analysis of Variance: Assumptions Kruskal-Wallis (nonparametric test)	Handout on SPSS & ANOVA	Description of Project 2 Analysis of Variance Post Hoc Tests HW Assignment #8, due in class on Thursday, Nov. 9 (automatic extension to Friday noon) Answer key to HW #8
Week 11: Oct. 30-Nov. 3	Analysis of Variance: more on Post Hoc Tests	Handout on extensions of ANOVA Extensions of ANOVA to more complicated experiments	Inferential statistics with one proportion
Week 12: Nov. 6-10	Went over returned HW Inferential statistics with two proportions	More inferential statistics with two proportions Answered questions on HW #8	Regression HW Assignment #9, due in class on Thursday, Nov. 16 (automatic extension to Friday noon) Answer key to HW #9
Week 13: Nov. 13-17	Regression What different correlations look like Are significant correlations really significant? x^2	Handout on regression with SPSS	Regression HW Assignment #10, due in class on Thursday, Nov. 30 (automatic extension to Friday noon) Answer key to HW #10
Week 14: Nov. 20-24	Regression: polynomial regression	Work on projects
Week 15: Nov. 27-Dec. 1	Regression: no SPSS, so mostly a post-Thanksgiving review	Hypothesis testing with multiple regression Collinearity	Testing blocks of variables stepwise/forward/backward regression Un-homework #11, problems to practice on before the final Answer key to HW #11
Week 16: Dec. 4-8	stepwise/forward/backward regression	Review for Final Exam	No Class
Final Exam: Dec. 12	Final Exam