Material Covered by Class Period
Date Material
Wed Sep 3 Covered syllabus and reading assignments and homework assignments and R markdown. In the latter. we covered down to the section on tables.
Fri Sep 5 Finished Rmarkdown. Start Chapter Zero of notes. Got into Section 5.4.2.
Mon Sep 8 Got to Section 6.3.4.2.
Wed Sep 10 Got into Section 7.5.1.
Fri Sep 12 Start Chapter One of notes. Got to Section 4.9.
Mon Sep 15 Got into Section 5.7.
Wed Sep 17 Got to Section 9.
Fri Sep 19 Got to Section 12.1.
Mon Sep 22 Finished Chapter 1 notes. Started and finished Poisson notes. Started Fuzzy Inference notes. Got to Section 4.
Wed Sep 24 Finished Fuzzy Inference notes. Started One-Way Contingency Tables notes. Got to Section 3.2.
Fri Sep 26 Finished One-Way Contingency Tables notes. Started Likelihood Inference notes. Got to Global MLE.
Mon Sep 29 Got to Wald, Wilks, and Rao Tests.
Wed Oct 1 Finished Likelihood Inference notes. Got to Starting values for likelihood maximization (method of moments).
Fri Oct 3 Finished second Likelihood Inference notes.
Mon Oct 6 Started Chapter 4 in Agresti and the accompanying notes. Got to the latent variable view of generalized linear models.
Wed Oct 8 Got to Poisson GLM.
Fri Oct 10 Finished notes for Agresti Chapter 4. Started notes about MCMC. Got to Bayesian inference.
Mon Oct 13 Got to Section about R function metrop.
Wed Oct 15 Got to Section about MCMC calculations.
Fri Oct 17 Got into Section about hierarchical Bayes log unnormalized posterior density function.
Mon Oct 20 Finished MCMC. Started talk about reproducibility. Got to the central dogma of hypothesis testing.
Wed Oct 22 Finished talk about reproducibility. Started notes accompanying Agresti, Chapter 8. Got to using R function loglm for multinomial response regression.
Fri Oct 24 Finished notes accompanying Agresti, Chapter 8. Started notes on overdispersion (quasilikelihood). Got to Section 4: Example.
Mon Oct 27 Finished notes on overdispersion (quasilikelihood). Started notes on exponential families of distributions. Got to identifiability.
Wed Oct 29 Got to sufficiency.
Fri Oct 31 Got to regression coefficients are meaningless.
Mon Nov 3 Finished notes on exponential families of distributions. Started notes accompanying Agresti, Chapter 9.
Wed Nov 5 Got into notes accompanying Agresti, Chapter 9: parametric bootstrap.
Fri Nov 7 Finished notes accompanying Agresti, Chapter 9. Started notes on model selection and model averaging. Got to branch and bound.
Mon Nov 10 Finished notes on model selection and model averaging. Started notes on exponential family conjugate priors. Got to how Bayes' rule works.
Wed Nov 12 Finished notes on exponential family conjugate priors. Started notes on graphical models. Got to directed graphs and causality.
Fri Nov 14 Finished notes on graphical models.
Mon Nov 17 Started notes on completion of exponential families or how to do valid statistical inference when MLE do not exist. Got to separation versus degeneracy.
Wed Nov 19 Got to confidence interval for closeness to the boundary.
Fri Nov 21 Got to hypothesis tests.
Mon Nov 24 Got to more on multinomial response.
Wed Nov 26 Got to mapping canonical to mean value for multinomial response.
Mon Dec 01 Finished notes on completion of exponential families. Started notes to accompany Agresti, Chapter 11. Got to quasi-symmetry.
Wed Dec 03 Finished notes to accompany Agresti, Chapter 11.
Fri Dec 05 Started and finished Rasch Models.
Mon Dec 08 Started Random Effects Models. Got to which CRAN packages we use.
Wed Dec 10 Finished Random Effects Models.