Stat 506, Spring 2017

STAT 506: Introduction to Experimental Design, Spring 2017

Syllabus.
Instructor: Tim Hanson. E-mail: hansont@stat.sc.edu.
Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 10am to 11am, and by appointment.
Office: 219C LeConte College, (803) 777-3859.
Class Meeting: Tuesday/Thursday 8:30am - 9:45am in WMBB Nursing room 409 or online.
Textbook: A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments, by Gary W. Oehlert.
Thanks to Prof. Oehlert for making his textbook freely available as a PDF file.
Video link for STAT 506.

Lecture schedule, notes, and homework

  • Tues., Jan. 10: Logistics, syllabus, introduction, and installing R and required R packages. Chapter 1 notes.
  • Thur., Jan. 12: Randomization, experiments with one treatment having two levels. Chapter 2 notes. Supplemental notes on two-sample inference and paired inference. Some terminology defined here.
  • Tues., Jan. 17: Completely randomized designs. Chapter 3 notes. Homework 1 due January 24.
  • Thur., Jan. 19: Completely randomized designs.
  • Tues., Jan. 24: Completely randomized designs. Contrasts. Chapter 4 notes.
  • Thur., Jan. 26: Contrasts. Multiple testing. Chapter 5 notes.
  • Tues., Jan. 31: Multiple testing. Homework 1 solutions. Homework 2 due Feb. 7.
  • Thur., Feb. 2: Multiple testing.
  • Tues., Feb. 7: Multiple testing. Assessing model assumptions. Chapter 6 notes.
  • Thur., Feb. 9: Assumptions. Homework 2 solutions.
  • Tues., Feb. 14: Power and sample size for oneway ANOVA. Chapter 7 notes. Russ Lenth's power and sample size applets. Homework 3 due Feb. 21.
  • Thur., Feb. 16: Two or more treatments: factorial designs. Chapter 8 notes.
  • Tues., Feb. 21: Factorial designs.
  • Thur., Feb. 23: Randomized complete block designs.
  • Tues., Feb. 28: CLASS CANCELLED. Computer not working.
  • Thur., Mar. 2: Two-way and three-way ANOVA examples. Homework 4 due March 14.
  • Tues., Mar. 7: Spring Break.
  • Thur., Mar. 9: Spring Break.
  • Tues., Mar. 14: Nesting of factors, random effects models, repeated measures. Homework 3 solutions.
  • Thur., Mar. 16: Repeated measures within one factor, split plots.
  • Tues., Mar. 21: Adding continuous predictors: ANCOVA. Course notes. Homework 5 due March 28.
  • Thur., Mar. 23: 2 × 2 tables, Fishers exact test, r × k tables. Course notes. Homework 4 solutions.
  • Tues., Mar. 28: Confidence interval and testing for π1-π2, relative risk, odds ratio, and case-control studies. Course notes.
  • Thur., Mar. 30: Contingency tables finished.
  • Tues., Apr. 4: 2 × 2 × k tables, Simpson's paradox, and the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test. Course notes. Lecture prerecorded and posted already; NO IN-CLASS LECTURE.
  • Thur., Apr. 6: Logistic regression. Course notes. Homework 5 solutions.
  • Tues., Apr. 11: Survival analysis. Course notes.
  • Thur., Apr. 13: Diagnostic screening. Course notes. Homework 6 (EXTRA CREDIT) due April 20.
  • Tues., Apr. 18: Poisson regression. Course notes.
  • Thur., Apr. 20: Review. Lecture prerecorded and posted; NO IN-CLASS LECTURE.