University of Minnesota
School of Statistics

Statistics 5401/8401
Fall 2005 Semester

Statistics 5401/8401 meets MWF from 11:15 - 12:05 in Ford 115

Instructor Christopher Bingham 372 Ford
      612-625-1024, FAX: 612-624-8868, email Email address

Teaching Assistant Edgar Maboudou

If you want to take Stat 5401 but have been unable to register because the class is full, you should do the following:

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Announcements

The first class meeting will be Wednesday, September 8, 2005 at 11:15 a.m. in Ford 115

Solutions to homework will be posted as PDF files.

The due date of Assignment 1 is changed to Friday, September 15.


Email and Office Hours Course Information (PDF file 20 K, revised 9/9/05)

Affirmation of Academic Honesty

One of the course policies is that attached to each homework turned in there must be a signed affirmation that the work is your own and that it was not copied from others’ work. You should download a copy of the required form (PDF file) . I will also bring copies to class.


Class Notes

Edited versions of overheads used in lectures are available as Acrobat PDF files for downloading. You will need the user name and password given out in class to access these.


Acrobat PDF Files

Information about Acrobat PDF files


Assignments


Solutions to Homework

Once homework has been graded and returned, solutions will be posted. They are no longer available.


Sample Examinations

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Handouts and Examples

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Data files

The principal data file is JWData5.txt. This contains all the same data sets that are on the CDROM that came with the text, but can be read by MacAnova command read(). You can download this file and all other data files from the the data set page (updated 11/28/05) You can also browse the class data file directory

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Computing

The computer program we will be using in this course is MacAnova, a free interactive program running under Windows 95/98/NT/XP, Macintosh and Unix.

I will be revising some of the following.

The latest version is 5.02. Even if you have a previous version of MacAnova, you should download the latest version. Bugs have been fixed, and there are several important recent enhancements.

There are several sources of documentation for MacAnova. All are available through the main MacAnova documentation page.

The best place to start is probably An Introduction to MacAnova, an Acrobat PDF file. This should also be available as a course packet in the Williamson Bookstore. This starts at the beginning and, with many examples, introduces the most important features of MacAnova. In particular it describes how to use the extensive help information available.

No current printed manual is available, but you can download Acrobat PDF files for the most recent MacAnova Users’ Guide. This is a comprehensive manual for MacAnova 4.07. It does not include enhancements and changes in later releases, but almost everything in it is still applicable. However, it is heavy going for those new to MacAnova, and it would be better start by reading An Introduction to MacAnova.

Another source of information is the MacAnova Reference Manual. This is a computer reformated of the information in all the MacAnova help files. This is also available in a HTML version which you can read using your browser. The Reference manual page has links allowing you to download all the HTML files themselves so you won’t need to go on line.

Frequently Asked Questions about MacAnova

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MacAnova Macro Files

The links with extension .txt link to the same files as the links without .txt. They may be handled better by some browsers. If you do download .txt version, it may be confusing in Windows since the default display of file names suppresses the "extension".

The first 6 of these are included in the standard distribution. Unless they are marked New or Corrected there is no need to download them if you have an up-to-date version of MacAnova. Other files of macros written for use in the course will be added as needed. The version of Mulvar.mac is corrected as of 11/15/04 and should be downloaded and installed

Some of the following is subject to change.

As indicated, some of the macro files serve as their own help files. To use the help, you need to inform MacAnova using macro addhelpfile(). Here‘s how you doit:

Cmd> addmacrofile("") # find the macro/help file as macro file

Cmd> addhelpfile(MACROFILES[1]) # identify it as help file

If, for example, the file is mvgraphics.mac.txt you can now get help by help(andrewsplot), say and the macros in mvgraphics.mac will be read in when you use them.


Reading macros "by hand"

To use a macro that is not in one of the standard macro files, you have to tell MacAnova the file name as follows:

Cmd> addmacrofile("") # find the macro file

After this, just using a macro in the file will cause it to be read from the file.

See the MacAnova FAQ for overcoming problems in using macros in downloaded macro files.


MacAnova Documentation
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