Purpose: To complete a basic two course sequence (in conjunction with STAT 515 or 509) in statistical techniques available to the general practitioner for analyzing experimental data. To introduce students in many different disciplines to multiple regression and analysis of variance for basic experimental designs. To provide students with the knowledge to implement and interpret these standard linear models.
Current Textbook: Statistical Methods, Third Edition, by R.J. Freund, W. J. Wilson and D. L. Mohr, 2010.
Computer Code for Class Examples
Required Computing Resources:
Some problems in this course involve significant computations, and for spring 2020, we will
primarily learn to use the SAS software to do the needed computations.
You will need access to a computer with SAS Studio (available for free to students in this class). This can easily be accessed on your own computer through the internet.
You will be emailed instructions about how to create a SAS OnDemand for Academics account and use SAS Studio.
Alternatively, you could use the software package R (available as a free download from the CRAN home page). This can easily be downloaded onto your home computer.
Example code in both R and SAS will be provided on the course web page, but we will use SAS for the in-class examples.
Both R and SAS are available on the computers in the labs in LeConte College.
Help in using R can be found on the
CRAN home page.