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Statistics 4F03/6F03 is offered by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at McMaster University.
Any questions, comments or suggestions? Send an e-mail to me at pdmmac@mcmaster.ca.
Your Final Examination will be held on Thursday December 8, 2005, 9:00-13:00, Here are photos I took of Marvin Zelen at the SSC Annual Meeting in Saskatoon earlier this year, and John Nelder at the International Biometric Conference, Berkeley, in July 2000. Test #1 (Part A) Solutions and Test #2 Solutions are online. Assignment #3 is given below. |
STATS 4F03/6F03: Categorical Data Analysis
Two-way and three-way contingency tables, logistic regression, loglinear models for contingency tables, collapsibility, ordinal associations, multicategory logit models.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:30 in ABB-270
Agresti, A. (1996) An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis, Wiley.
Agresti, A. (2002) Categorical Data Analysis, Second Edition, Wiley.
This is an expanded edition of the 1996 text.Dobson, A.J. (2002) An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition, Chapman & Hall.
This text gives very a accessible account of the theory and is aimed at anyone who needs to use GLMs to analyse data.Bishop, Y.M.M., Fienberg, S.E. & Holland, P.W. (1975) Discrete Multivariate Analysis, Theory and Practice, MIT.
This is the first major monograph on the subject; the notation and some of the methods are outdated but the data sets and discussions are excellent.
You want the "Precompiled binary distribution", not the "source code". For Windows installation, go to the link for "Windows (95 and later)", open folder "base", and click on rw2011.exe to download the installer. Run rw2011.exe to install R on your computer. |
2005-10-13 (Thursday) |
17:00-19:00 |
BSB-242 Student Technology Centre* |
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2005-11-17 (Thursday) |
16:00-18:00 |
BSB-242 Student Technology Centre* |
Aids permitted: Open book.
*You must have a valid userid, password and laser printing account for the BSB Student Technology Centre. Tests MUST be submitted on paper; electronic submission is NOT permitted.
If you are unable to write a test at the scheduled time, please e-mail me at least 3 days before to make special arrangements.