Course Information for
University of Minnesota, Stat 8061
Fall Semester, 2001
First day: W Sept 5, 905-955, 210 Physics
Thereafter, MWF 850-955, B53 Ford Hall
The
instructor is S. Weisberg, 362 Ford Hall, 625-8355.
Office Hrs.: W 1:15-2:00 & M 10:10-11:00, or
come to see me whenever you have questions, or send me email at
sandy@stat.umn.edu. I will often be in my St. Paul
office (146 Cla Off) on Tuesday and possibly on Thursday. My
phone number there is 625-8777.
The paper grader is Haihong Zhu,
zhu@stat.umn.edu.
His office hour is
1-2PM Tuesday and Thursday, probably in 352 Ford. You can talk to
him about homework, graded and ungraded, and any other aspect of
the course.
R. D. Cook and S. Weisberg (1999),
Applied Regression Including Computing and Graphics, New York: Wiley.
All computing uses Arc
which is written in Luke Tierney's
Lisp-Stat language. The textbook provides the
manual for Arc.
The program is installed on the School's Unix workstations and on the PCs in the
computer labs in both Ford and ClaOff. You
can download it for any PC or Macintosh from
http://www.stat.umn.edu/arc.
The WWW site for this class is reached from
http://www.stat.umn.edu,
and
then selecting Classes, and then the course number. The Web will contain
announcements, a listing of email received from the class, and an occasional
additional data set.
There will be approximately weekly assignments. Although the
homework will not be graded, it will be collected. Students will
be expected to be able to discuss their solutions to problems in
class.
There will be three exams in this class, tentatively scheduled for
November 9, November 29, and the final exam on Monday, December 18
from 1:30-3:30. At least one, and possibly two, of the exams will
be a take-home exam. Grading is weighted as follows: each exam
except the final, 25% each, final exam, 35%, and homework/class
participation 15%.
Students who fail to
complete all work will receive a grade based on the work done.
Grades of incomplete will be given only in extraordinary
circumstances, and only after negotiation with the instructor.
Collaboration on homework is strongly encouraged.
Collaboration on exams is absolutely prohibited. Any
students who work together on exams will be given a failing grade
in the course.
I will make use of handouts. Copies of the
handouts are available on the Web server in the
Handouts
section.
This publication/material, and all other handouts in Statistics
8061, is available in alternative formats upon
request. Please contact Mary, School of
Statistics, 313 Ford, 625-7000.
This course will follow the book, starting at the beginning and
ending at the end. This is a very fast-paced course.
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