Homeworks, Labs, Data and Notes for QERM 598: Statistical Methods and R

(This is an archived version of the page from Winter 2007)

Week 1: Basics of distributions and the Central Limit Theorem

• pre-class assignment
• in-class lab
• homework

Week 2: Randomization for paired comparisons

• lecture Notes
• in-class lab on randomization tests
• homework

Week 3: t-tests

• in-class lab on t-tests
• homework
• more notes on non-parametric tests

Week 4 and 5: Introduction to ANOVA

• lecture notes
• in-class lab
• homework
• Sea lion birth data

Week 6: Linear Regression

• lecture notes
• in-class lab
• homework
• Sleep data
• Pie/Sleep data
• Sealion Inter-Parturition Period data

Week 7: Chi-squared tests on contingency tables

• lecture notes
• in-class lab
• homework

Week 8: Simulation Modeling in R (Deterministic and stochastic)

• Random walk
• Markov matrix
• Leslie matrix

Week 10: Whatever

• Some extra R tricks

Special Bonus Track: Confidence intervals

• Confidence interval notes