Assignments for This Year
- For Friday September 9, 2022, read Notes on Baby Statistics. Also read Agresti, Sections 1.1 through 1.4. Skip the stuff that doesn't make sense. Some of this material is gone into in gory detail by Agresti in later chapters or by us in Course Notes. Also read the course notes that go along with this material in Agresti. We will lecture off of these notes, so again one can skip stuff that seems too hard or too unfamiliar, but the lecture will make more sense if you have at least looked at the relevant sections of the textbook and the notes. We won't cover all of this material on the day it is due. So one can continue reading as the lectures progress.
- Oops! Have not been keeping up with reading assignments.
- For Monday, October, 17, 2022, start reading Agresti, Chapter 4 and the course notes accompanying it. For Monday just read 4.1 through 4.3 in Agresti.
- Oops! Have not been keeping up with reading assignments yet again.
- Reading about Bayes. Section 1.6 in Agresti and the notes we have been covering in class. Need to read before finishing the homework Nov 2.
- Reading about multinomial response and ordered categorical. Sections 8.1 and 8.2 in Agresti and the notes on Agresti Chapter 8. Read first part (multinomial response) for Monday Nov 7 and rest for Wednesday Nov 9.
- Reading about overdispersion for Wednesday Nov 16 (already lectured on this).
- Reading about exponential families of distributions for Wednesday Nov 23.
Assignments for Last Year
- For September 22, 2021, read Agresti, Section 1.5.
- For September 27, 2021, read Agresti, Sections 2.1 and 2.2. Also look at Stat 5421 Lecture Notes: Simple Chi-Square Tests for Contingency Tables. We will lecture on these, but taking a look before may be helpful.
- For October 4, 2021, read Agresti, Chapter 4, Section 4.1 through 4.3.
- For October 6, 2021, look over handouts on likelihood and likelihood computation.
- For October 15, 2021, look over handouts on Bayesian Inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Conjugate Priors. Give special attention to the first part of the notes on Bayesian inference (before the computing examples), especially if you have not seen Bayesian inference before.
- For November 1, 2021, read Agresti, Chapter 8, Sections 8.1.1 through 8.1.4 and 8.2.1 through 8.2.4, which go with the notes on Agresti Chapter 8.
- For November 5, 2021, read Agresti, Chapter 4, Sections 4.3.3 and 4.7, which go with the notes on overdispersion.
- For November 8, 2021, start reading notes on exponential families of distributions. There will be lecture about these but the lecture will make a lot more sense if you have read over these notes. Try to stay ahead of the lecture on this.
- For November 17, 2021, read Agresti, Chapter 9, Sections 9.1 through 9.4, which go with the notes on Agresti Chapter 9.
