Stat526 Course Info

Course Information

Advanced Statistical Methodology (STAT 526) - Spring 2019

http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~tlzhang/stat526/stat526.htm

Course Description

Statistics 526 is the second semester course of the sequence of STAT 525/526. The course will cover: contingency table and odds ratio, exponential families, logistic and loglinear regressions for count data, Gamma GLM, random effect and mixed effect models, regression trees, survival analysis, nonparametric regression, and etc.

Prerequisite

Stat 525 and 517 or 528. Working knowledge of basic statistical inference and modeling, such as the maximum likelihood estimate, the likelihood ratio test, and the standard linear models, exponential families.

Schedule

MWF 8:30am-9:20am, REC 114
Midterm: 8:00pm-10:00pm, Wednesday, 02/27/2019 at BRNG 2290.
Final: TBA.

Instructor

Tonglin Zhang, Associate Professor of Statistics
Email: tlzhang@purdue.edu
Office: 172 HAAS
Phone: (765)496-2097, Fax: (765)494-0558
Office Hours: 1:00pm-3:00pm on Tuesday.

TA/Grader

Muye Liu: liu2546@purdue.edu.
All homework assignments will be graded, and all solutions will be provided by the instructor.

Textbooks

Faraway, Julian: Extending the Linear Model with R: Generalized Linear, Mixed Effects and Nonparametric Regression Models, Second Edition. CRC Press.

Reference books

Agresti, A. Categorical Data Analysis.

Software Required

R is the required package. It is free and can be download here.

Web Page

All course information will be available on www.stat.purdue.edu/~tlzhang/stat526/stat526.htm.

Homework

Everybody must type the solutions.

Exams

Open-book and open notes.

Makeup: must be pre-approved at least one week before the official exam time. Students cannot decide by themselves. The instructor can deny a makeup exam if it is not pre-approved. At least 20% deduction if a student does not follow the rule.

No discussion of any request of makeup exams in the lecture room. Any request of makeup exams must be discussed in my office.

Emergency events will be considered. Minor issues (e.g. drive license test, shopping, pickup friends at airport, and etc) will not be considered.

Course Requirements and Grades

The final grade has the following components:

Homework (30%) will be posted on the course web page mostly. No late due is accepted and solutions will be available soon after due. The lowest score will be dropped.
Midterms (30%). Time: two hours evening exam.
Final (35%). In class on the Final Week.
Evaluation (5%). Please forward your receipt.

Initially, it is
A(+/-): 90-100; B(+/-):80-90; C(+/-): 70-80; D(+/-): 60-70; F: below 60.