Health Studies 324 / Statistics 224

Applied Regression Analysis Syllabus

Prof. Vanja M. Dukic

Autumn 2005
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30 -- 11:50 am
Eckhart 133

http://galton.uchicago.edu/~dukic/224-A05/224-A05-web/index.html

 

 
 Date
Topic
Reading Assignments
Due
Tuesday -- Sep 27, 2005 Overview: Hypothesis testing  (SLR) Chapter 1  
Thursday -- Sep 29, 2005 Introduction to Simple Linear Regression Chapter   2.1 -- 2.7

take-home quiz

Tuesday -- Oct 4, 2005 SLR continued: LS estimation, testing Chapter   2.8 -- 2.11  
Thursday -- Oct 6, 2005 SLR continued   Chapter   3.1 -- 3.8

Tuesday -- Oct 11, 2005 Multiple linear regression (MLR) Chapter   3.1--3.8

HW 1

Thursday -- Oct 13, 2005 Hypothesis testing in MLR Chapter   3.9 -- 3.11

Tuesday -- Oct 18, 2005 Regression diagnostics: violations of model assumptions, residual analysis Chapter   4.1 -- 4.5

HW 2

Thursday -- Oct 20, 2005 More diagnostics: outliers, studentized residuals, influence plots Chapter   4.6 -- 4.13  

Tuesday -- Oct 25 , 2005 MIDTERM -- in class   -----  
Thursday -- Oct 27, 2005 Indicator variables: confounding, interactions Chapter    5.1 -- 5.4

Tuesday -- Nov 1, 2005 Seasonality and regression stability over time Chapter    5.5 -- 5.7  

HW 3

Thursday -- Nov 3, 2005 Transformations: power family Chapter    6  

Tuesday -- Nov 8, 2005 Heteroscedasticity; variance stabilizing transformations Chapter    7.1 -- 7.4  

HW 4

Thursday -- Nov 10, 2005 Autocorrelation Chapter    8  

Tuesday -- Nov 15, 2005 Collinearity Chapter    9.1--9.5, 9.7  

HW 5

Thursday -- Nov 17, 2005 Variable selection Chapter    11.1--11.12, 11.15

 

Tuesday -- Nov 22, 2005 Logistic regression Chapter    12  

HW 6

Tuesday -- Nov 29, 2005 Logistic regression and Review Chapter    12  

Thursday -- Dec 1, 2005 EARLY BIRD EXAM 10:00-12:00, Eck 133 -- no class   -----  

HW 7