Statistics 498

STAT 498 Syllabus

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Syllabus

Outline of the course

First assignment

Send me email describing your background, what statistics classes you have taken, and why you are interested in the class.

Cases

Cases with asterisks are not yet available.

Case 1: The ASARCO copper smelter in Tacoma.
The continuation is here.
An S-Plus script for doing an analysis of variance with the smelter data is available.
Another S-Plus script for doing a residual analysis of the data is here.
Some references for this case.
Case 2: Port Townsend Paper Corporation.
Case 2, continued.
Case 3: Nuclear waste in Hanford.
Here is the continuation of the Hanford case.
Case 4: Setting environmental standards

Study groups

The class consists of a single group (unless we suddenly get an additional influx of students). The group will work together the entire quarter. Most projects will require group reports, although there will be some individual pieces of work required. At the end of the quarter, each individual will assess every group member's contribution (including their own) to the group product.

Detailed schedule

The day-by-day schedule is being updated regularly and constitutes my best guess of what we will be doing on each day.

Online discussion

Online discussion can take place here. Feel free to add any comments you have.

Computing

S-Plus on the Web:

An S-Plus on-line manual.
Frequently Asked Questions about S.
Introduction to S-Plus by Brian Ripley, Oxford University.

Librarians

Our librarians are Steve Hiller (hiller@u) and Patty Carey (pcarey@u).

Web searches

The librarians have produced a Web page on library resources. Each student needs to complete the class assignment given there. Credit will be proportional to the number of data sets annotated (at least two must be done, at most 10).

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