STAT J530 (Applied Multivariate Statistics)

Fall 2010

Instructor

David Hitchcock, assistant professor of statistics

Syllabus

Syllabus: (Word document) or (pdf document)

Office Hours -- Fall 2010

Mon 11:00 a.m.-12:00, Tues 10:00-11:00 a.m., Wed 11:00 a.m.-12:00, Thu 10:00-11:00 a.m., Fri 10:30-11:30 a.m.
or please feel free to make an appointment.

Office: 209A LeConte College
Phone: 777-5346
E-mail: hitchcock@stat.sc.edu

Class Meeting Time

MW 9:30AM-10:45AM, WD 116 or via distance by streaming video

Current Textbook

An R and S-PLUS Companion to Multivariate Analysis (2005), by Brian Everitt.

Courses that may serve as a prerequisite: Any of the following: PSYC 228 or 709; EDRM 710; STAT 509, 515, 700, or 704; MGSC 291, 391 or 692; BIOS 700.
(If you have had a course that may be equivalent to one of these, please contact me about it.)

More Information

Course Description

530—Applied Multivariate Statistics (3) (Prereq: STAT 515 or PSYC 228 or MGSC 391 or equivalent) Introduction to fundamental ideas in multivariate statistics using case studies. Descriptive, exploratory, and graphical techniques; introduction to cluster analysis, principal components, factor analysis, discriminant analysis, Hotelling's T2 and other methods.

Purpose: To introduce students with a variety of statistical backgrounds to the basic ideas in multivariate statistics. It will cover the assumptions, limitations, and uses of basic techniques such as cluster analysis, principal components analysis, and factor analysis as well as how to implement these methods in R, SAS, and SPSS. Instead of theoretical development, the focus will be on the intuitive understanding and applications of these methods to real data sets by the students.

Instructions for Accessing Lectures Online

If you haven't already done so, log into this course in Blackboard. Then click the “Distance Ed” tab on the left side of the page. The details for viewing the lectures either (1) live through Adobe Connect, (2) recorded through Adobe Connect, or (3) recorded via streaming video, are listed under “Accessing Online Lectures”. The call-in number for the studio and technical support contact information are also given there.

Available Computing Resources

R is available as a free download (from the CRAN home page) and students who want SAS can buy a copy from USC Computer Services.
These packages are also available on the computers in the labs in LeConte College (and a few other buildings). Help in using R can be found on the CRAN home page.

Course Notes

My Drawings from Class

Downloading Instructions for R

Computing Tips: Some Review

Computer Code for Class Examples

Example R Code

Example SAS Code

Data Sets

The data sets from the book may be found under "Data Files" at the textbook website:
http://biostatistics.iop.kcl.ac.uk/publications/everitt/.

Other data sets used in the course:

Midterm Exam Information

Final Exam Information

That's a Good Question!

Homework

Some Homework Solution Code and General Comments