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Monday 9:30, Wednesday 9:30, Friday 14:30.
Please come at the start of the hour. Other times by appointment.
Don't hesitate to contact me by telephone, voice mail, or e-mail any time you need help. If you need to see me at any time and my office door is open, I will see you then if I can, or arrange a time to meet later.
Become fluent in the theory, application and calculation of multivariate statistical methods.
We will work through Johnson & Wichern, Parts I & II, in detail, then, as time permits, we will cover selected topics from Parts III & IV.
Johnson, R.A. & Wichern, D.W. Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall.
Spector, P. An Introduction to S and S-Plus, Duxbury.
Anonymous. UNIX: An Introductory User's Guide, CIS, McMaster University.
Copies of the lecture notes will be available in the Thode Library.
Check the course web site at http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/peter/s4m03/s4m03.html regularly for announcements, assignments, course notes, and answers to frequently-asked questions.
Students are expected to use computers in this course. All of the methods studied should be available in Splus and some instruction in Splus will be given. Students are also encouraged to explore other packages such as MINITAB, SPSS and SAS.
Students will be given computer accounts for the department's UNIX machine "stats" and the BSB Windows lab.
It is each student's responsibility to keep up to date with the course by working ahead in the text. Each chapter of the text has worked examples and lots of problems.
Four or five assignments will be handed in for grading. Some of the assignment questions will involve the data sets on the data disk that accompanies the text; this will give you some experience in "real-world" applications of statistics.
Friday, October 15, 1999
13:30 - 14:25
BSB-101
Friday, November 19, 1999
13:30 - 14:25
BSB-101
Aids permitted: Any calculators; any tables, books and notes.
There will be a formal 4-hour examination in December. The examination will be held in the BSB computer laboratory so that you can use Splus for your calculations.
Aids permitted: Computers; any calculators; any tables, books and notes.
All assignments will be counted. Only the better of the two tests will be counted. The final mark will be the best of the following four calculations:
(A) 100% Exam; (B) 80% Exam + 20% Assignments; (C) 80% Exam + 20% Best Test; (D) 60% Exam + 20% Assignments + 20% Best Test.I will review all "borderline" marks and possibly make further adjustments.
Graduate students taking Statistics 6M03 for graduate credit must give a 50-minute class presentation and submit a written report on any ONE of the following: (1) a topic selected by the instructor from Part III or IV of the text; (2) the analysis of a multivariate data set (in which case the report should be a plain-language consultant's report); (3) a recent journal article on a topic of current research in multivariate methodology.
This additional work will count for 10% of the graduate student's final mark. The mark computed from assignments, tests and examinations by the grading scheme shown above will count for 90%.
We remind you of the Statement on Academic Ethics and the Senate Resolutions on Academic Dishonesty found in the Senate Policy Statements distributed at registration and available in the Senate Office. Any student who infringes one of these resolutions will be treated according to published policy.