STA290 Calendar

Date	Topic	Reading	Handouts	Assignment
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8/24	Introduction to Modern Statistical Data Analysis	R Intro Chapter 1, Appendix A	Introduction	HW 0
8/26	Intro to R Exploratory Data Analysis	see the computing page for additional R resources	emacs, ESS, EDA Part 1 (R code)
8/31	Exploratory Data Analysis		EDA Part 2 (R-code) geyser.dat	HW1
9/2	Exploratory Data Analysis		EDA Part 3 (R-code) fish.dat	See Computing page for Including Graphs in LaTeX and example latex sources
9/4	Friday: Drop/Add Period Ends
9/7	Introduction to Bayesian Inference - Why Bayes?	Hoff Ch 1-2	Bayes Intro
9/9	Bayes Inference for Proportions	Hoff Ch 3	Binomial R-code	HW2
9/14	Bayesian Inference for Exponential Families	Hoff Ch 3	Exponential R-code
9/16	More on Prior Distributions	Hoff Ch 3	Prior Distributions
9/21	Monte Carlo Approximations	Hoff Ch 4	MC Approx R-code
9/23	Normal Models	Hoff Ch 5	Conjugate Normal R-code	HW3
9/28	Predictive Distributions	Hoff Ch 4-5	Predictive
9/30	Gibbs Sampling	Hoff Ch 6	Gibbs (R-code)
10/5	Fall Break - No Class
10/7	Diagnostics	Hoff Ch 6	Diagnostics (R-code)	HW4 Due Friday 10/16
10/12	Mixture Models & WinBugs	Hoff Ch 6	Mixtures R-code
10/14	Multivariate Normal	Hoff Ch 7	Bivariate R-code
10/19	Multivariate Normal and NonConjugate Priors Review	Hoff Ch 7	Midterm 08 key R-code
10/21	Midterm
10/26	Missing Data and Imputation	Hoff Ch 7	Missing R Code	HW5
10/28	Group Comparisons and Hierachical Models	Hoff Ch 8	Bayes random effects hsb.dat, R-code
11/2	Hierachical Models	Hoff Ch 8	Unequal Variances R-code	midterm Problem 3
11/4	Linear Regression	Hoff Ch 9	regression R-code bodyfat	HW6
11/9	Multiple Regression	Hoff Ch 9	multiple regression R-code
11/11	Model Choice	Hoff Ch 9	Variable Selection R-code
11/16	Predictions with Hierarchical Models	Hoff Ch 11	Hierarchical Regression hier.R	HW7 Palm Beach Data
11/18	Logistic Regression	Hoff Ch 11	logistic logit.R seeds
11/23	Hierarchical Logistic Regression Poisson Regression		logistic-hier.R Poisson R code africa.dat
11/26-12/7	Graduate Reading Period
12/12	Final Project Presentations Sat 2:00 - 5:00 pm

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