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
530Applied 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
- Chapter 2 example R code (Enhanced scatterplots, Convex hull, Chi-plot, Bivariate boxplot, Bivariate density estimator, Bubble plot, Scatterplot matrix, 3-D scatterplot, Star plot, Chernoff faces)
- Chapter 3 example R code (Principal Components Analysis, including scree plots, plots of PC scores, and CIs for variances of the population PCs)
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:
- Blood Glucose data (from Table 8.6 -- slightly corrected from book's printing which had some typos)
Midterm Exam Information
Final Exam Information
That's a Good Question!
Homework
Some Homework Solution Code and General Comments