STAT/CS&SS 504 - Winter 2008 - Timeline

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Note: Suggested reading is given for Weisberg (2005). The order of topics, time spent on each topic, suggested reading and topics themselves may change depending on the pace of the class. The updates will be posted on this page.  Please check the page regularly.

Week Day Date In class Topic (reading) Due
1 M Jan 7 Lecture 1 Introduction (Ch.1)  
  W Jan 9 Lecture 2 Basic ideas of regression (p.19-26)  
  Th Jan 10 Lecture 3 Simple linear regression (p.26-7) E-mail project ideas
  F Jan 11 Discussion session Introduction to R, group project work Homework 1
2 M Jan 14 Lecture 4 Tests and confidence intervals (p.28-32)  
  W Jan 16 Lecture 5 Predictions, fitted values, residuals (p.34-7)  
  Th Jan 17 Lecture 6 Simple linear regression: Interpretation (Ch.4.2-4.4)  
  F Jan 18 Discussion session Hw 2 review, group project work Homework 2
3 M Jan 21 Holiday    
  W Jan 23 Lecture 7 Multiple linear regression: Basics (p.47-59)  
  Th Jan 24 Lecture 8 Multiple linear regression: Estimation (p.54-60) Approval of project topic
  F Jan 25 Discussion session Group project work  
4 M Jan 28 Lecture 9 Multiple linear regression: Testing (p.61-65) 9am: Project statement
  W Jan 30 Lecture 10 Multiple linear regression: Interpretation (p.69-91)  
  Th Jan 31 Lecture 11 Independent variables and causality.  
  F Feb 1 Discussion section Homework 3 review Homework 3
5 M Feb 4 Lecture 12 Bootstrap  
  W Feb 6 Lecture 13 Weighted least squares (p.96-110)  
  Th Feb 7 Lecture 14 Categorical independent variables (p.122-133), pairwise comparisons

 

 
  F Feb 8 Discussion session Homework 4 review Homework 4
6 M Feb 11 Midterm exam    
  W Feb 13 Lecture 15 Interaction terms  
  Th Feb 14 Lecture 16 Violations of assumptions (p.171-177); Nonlinearity: Detection; Non-constant variance (p.177-191)  
  F Feb 15 Discussion section Review midterm exam  
7 M Feb 18 Holiday    
  W Feb 20 Lecture 17 Transformations (p.115-120, 147-161)  
  Th Feb 21 Lecture 18 Transformations. Diagnostics (data points)  
  F Feb 22 Discussion section Homework 5 review Homework 5
8 M Feb 25 Lecture 19 Leverage points, outliers and Influential cases (p.194-197, p.198-206)  
  W Feb 27 Short project presentation 1    
  Th Feb 28 Short project presentation 2    
  F Feb 29 Discussion session Case studies  
9 M Mar 3 Lecture 20 Robust regression  
  W Mar 5 Lecture 21 Model selection I: AIC, BIC, Mallows' Cp (p.211-230)  
  Th Mar 6 Lecture 22 Model selection II: Cross-validation (p.221-230)  
  F Mar 7 Discussion session Homework discussion; brainstorming Homework 6
10 M Mar 10 Project presentations 1     
  W Mar 12 Project presentations 2     
  Th Mar 13 Project presentations 3     
  F Mar 14 Lecture 23  Bayesian Model Averaging   
11 M Mar 17 No in-class exam   3pm: Project report