This is a UNIX version of S-PLUS that requires you to enter commands as text. Windows versions of SAS and S-PLUS can be accessed throught the machines in the computing lab in Snedecor 321 and at other locations on campus. Copies of S-PLUS and SAS manuals are available in Snedecor 115, the Computation Center Library, and the Parks Library. On-line help is also available. You should have a calculator that you can bring to exams.
Course grades About nine written assignments, one or two mid-term exams, final exam.
Material to be Covered Topic Reading Assignments 1. Probability distributions for count data. Review of inferential procedures, mle's, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses. Lloyd, Chapters 1 and 2 2. Inferences for two-way contingency tables Lloyd, Chapter 3 3.