Wednesday 1p.m. - 3 p.m.
or by appointment
TA : Dongah Kim (email: dkim at math.umass.edu)
Office : LGRT 1435N
Office hours : Tue 4-5 and Thurs 4-4:45
TA will handle computational questions and questions related to homework
STAT 516 or equivalent is necessary for this course. In most cases, a probability course such as STAT 515 is not sufficient. You should have seen things such as hypothesis tests (e.g. t-tests, z-tests, F-tests), confidence intervals, and p-values in a previous course
Students are required to use the SAS programming language for the homework sets and IE project.
SAS at UMass
SAS is available on many public computers in Windows public OIT classrooms(on campus).
purchasing SAS through OIT, if you want to buy your own copy
Info on SAS site licenses if you want to buy your own copy : Info
free to students enrolled in the course
look for instruction and course code in your class email
Please also see the following websites for links that provide help with learning SAS.
Links on SAS for computing
An introduction to SAS (from Professor John Buonaccorsi) (See sections 1 - 12)
Links on useful procedures in SAS
FINAL EXAM
Date : May, 9th (Wednesday)
Time : 8AM – 10AM
Location : Goessmann Lab. Addtn room 51
Materials : cumulative
Please bring a calculator and two, 8.5 x 11 (letter size) double-sided formula sheets
MIDTERM
Date : Friday March 23
Time : 10:10 pm - 11:00 pm in class
Location : LGRC A203
Materials : Jan 22 - Mar 21
Please bring a calculator and one, 8.5 x 11 (letter size) double-sided formula sheet
READING
An introduction to SAS (from Professor John Buonaccorsi)
Sections 1- 3
Jan 22, 24, 26: Review of statistical concepts and SAS Introduction
Appendix A in the textbook
Feb 2, 5, 7: Chapter 1(1.1 - 1.8)
Feb 9, 14, 16: Chapter 2(2.1 - 2.5, 2.7, 2.9. 2.10)
Feb 21, 23, 26: Chapter 3(3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.9, 3.11)
Feb 28 (exploratory data analysis for the IE project)
Mar 2, 5: Chapter 6
Mar 7, 9, 21: Chapter 7
§ CH7bodyfat.txt, CH7sascode_bodyfat.sas
o Mar 26, 28, 30, Apr 2, 4, 6: Chapter 8
§ 8.1: CH08powercells.txt, CH8sascode_powercells.sas
§ 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5 : CH08insurance.txt, CH8sascode_insurance.sas
§ 8.6: CH8dummy.sas
o Apr 9, 11: Chapter 9
§ CH09surgicalunit.txt, CH9sascode_surgicalunit.sas
o Apr 13, 16, 18, 20, 23: Chapter 5, Chapter 10
§ CH7bodyfat.txt, CH10sascode_bodyfat.sas
HOMEWORK
Note
Homework is due at the beginning of class on the due date. Late homework will not be accepted . One missed homework is allowed, or the one with the lowest score excluded.
Homework must be written neatly on 8.5x11 inch sheets of paper. Unreadable words or figures are considered to be incorrect answers
Please attach your SAS codes and SAS outputs (including figures) that are related to your homework questions. You can also cut and paste answers of SAS output into proper places of solution sheets when applicable
In writing up homework, it is not sufficient to give only the answer to a problem; you must show how it was calculated
HW 1 (Due Feb. 2, Friday) :
Stat 516 review questions:
Review Appendix A (A.2, A.3 and A.4 in the textbook KNN)
Review Appendix A.6-A.9 in KNN and solve these self-test questions
The last page of a lecture note, ''Lecture 0 : SAS Introduction''
Students will form groups of 3-4 classmates for the IE projects. Send me your ranked preferences for the project topics in my suggested list of projects which I handed out in class. I will assign projects to groups based on similar interests. If you have a project of your own interest, feel free to include in the email submission as well
HW 2(Due Feb. 9, Friday) : Problems, Data for Problem 1.21 Solution
HW 3 :
Problems, Data for Problem 1.27, 2.27 and 2.28 (Due Feb. 23, Friday) Solution
Email me a report of at most 2 pages, common for the group, which provides the main goals of the project, general background and discussion of the problem. If you have any questions, you are strongly encouraged to come to my office hours. (Due Feb. 23, Friday)
HW4:
Problems, Data for Problem 2.29, Data for Problem 2.30 and 2.31, Data for Problem 3.17, Data for Problem 3.18 (Due Mar. 7, Wednesday) Solution
Project report (exploratory analysis): requirements are here. (Email Due by 5pm Mar. 21, Wednesday).
Practice Midterm is here.
HW5:
Problems, Data for Problem 7.4, Data for Problem 7.6 and 7.26 (Due April 6, Friday)
Project report (model building): requirements are here. (Email Due by 5pm April. 13, Friday).
Final report due May 7, Monday
Each team submit a common report (Format of the final report)
o Each person submit a self-reflection report (requirements here)
HW6 (extra 4 credits toward the total grade) due May 9, Wednesday at the time of the final
DESCRIPTION
READING
How to write technical reports
LISTING OF SUGGESTED IE PROJECTS