Time and Location

STAT514 TTh 1:30-2:45 PM PHYS 331
STAT514Q TTh 3:00-4:15 PM POTR 262

Instructor: Michael Y. Zhu

Office: 510 Mathematical Sciences Building
Office Hours: For students on campus 3:00pm-4:30pm Monday and 1:30pm-3:00pm Wednesday; For students off campus 3:00pm-5:30pm Wednesday. Short questions by email are also welcome.
Appointments: If you cannot use the scheduled office hours, you may arrange an appointment for another time by email or by phone.
Phone: (765)494-6038
Email: yuzhu@stat.purdue.edu
Mailbox: in Room 533 MATH, open 8:00am-5:00pm Monday-Friday only.

Grader and TA

For Stat514, the grader is

 Nikita Tuzov 
   Office : MATH 511
   Phone : 765-494-0025
   E-mail : ntuzov@stat.purdue.edu
   Office Hour: 10:15am-12:15pm Thursday, Math 511

For Stat514Q, the TA is

 Timothy Clough 
   Office : G130
   Phone : 765-496-7263
   E-mail : tclough@stat.purdue.edu
   Office Hour: 10:30am-12:30pm Monday

Tim will also hold extra office hours. The time and location will be announced later on.

Prerequisite

Textbook

Design and Analysis of Experiments by Montgomery (5th Edition or 6th Edition)
References:
"Experiments: Planning, Analysis, and Parameter Design Optimization" by Wu and Hamada (Wiley);
"Statistics for Experimenters" by Box, Hunter and Hunter (Wiley).

Course Outline

Overview and Basic Principles
Simple Designs and Analysis of Variance
Block Designs, Latin Squares and Related Designs
Full and Fractional Factorial Designs
Experiments with Random Factors
Nested and Split-Plot Designs
Response Surface Methods

Homework and Exams

There are about 10 homework assignments, two in-class midterms and one final. The midterms are tentatively scheduled to be in the weeks of February 14 and April 4. The final exam will be held in the week of May 1.


The homework assignment will be posted on the web one week before its due date which usually a Thursday. Students on campus can hand in homework either in class or put it in my mailbox by 5:00pm on the due date; Students off campus are given two more days to mail homework to Tim directly, that is, the homework needs to be postmarked before 5:00pm the second day after the due date. The mailing address for Tim is

Timothy Clough
Department of Statistics 
Purdue University 
150 N. University Street 
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 

Late homework will not be accepted unless you have a conflict or an emergent situation. Homework solutions will be posted on the web. Group discussions and study sessions are encouraged but upright copying is unacceptable. Please do not pad your homework with endless SAS printouts. Please only include the printouts that are directly relevant to your answers.

Students having exam conflicts or requesting special accommodation (documented) must inform the instructor as early as possible so that alternative plans may be arranged.

Final Grade

Homework 20%; Midterm I 20%; Midterm II 20%; Final 40%

Your final grade will be determined by taking your received percentage to the following scale: [90, 100]=A, [80, 90)=B, [70, 80)=C, [60, 70)=D, below 60=F.

Stat514 Website

The URL of the website is http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~yuzhu/514s05gate.html. It contains links to all the course material. The links are Course Information, SAS Information, Lecture Notes, Homework and Exam Material, Data Sets, SAS Templates and Announcements. Some links are briefly described below.
• Lecture Notes usually are .pdf files. They will be posted at least two days before lecture.
• Homework and Exam Material contains homework assignments, exam material and solutions.
• SAS Templates contains important .sas programs which are used in class and can serve as templates for homework.
• Data Sets contains .dat files which are data sets in plain text format.
To download a .sas program or a .dat file, just click the file name, then click Save this file to disk and navigate to the directory when you keep your SAS work. Where you use a ITaP computer, make sure to use use either your home directory (H: drive) or a floppy disk (A: drive), otherwise your work will be deleted after you log off.