STAT3900/STAT4950/ECON4950 Applied Data Analysis (Using SAS and SPSS)

Announcement

This course introduces SAS and SPSS, and statistical inference using them: Information Sheet.   

Important  Notes you should know

 

Instructor:

Dr. Shenghua Kelly Fan

Lecture Time & Classroom:

TTh 8:00 pm—9:50 pm at Sc N207

Office hours:

TTh 3:15-3:50 pm 7:00 pm—7:50 pm

E-mail address:

kelly.fan@csueastbay.edu

Office/phone number

Sc N 318/ (510)8853428

Website

www.sci.csueastbay.edu/~sfan

 
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Schedule: TBA in Class

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Lecture Notes: (subject to minor change)

Descriptive statistics

Hypothesis testing

Simple random sampling

One-way ANOVA

 Contrast

Two-way ANOVA

Simple linear regression

Chi-square tests

Factor Analysis

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Homework: will be distributed in class every Tuesday

Link to software Minitab: click here

Rules for homework:

1)      Please write your name, homework #, and course number on the first page.

2)      Please write your answers in complete sentences, not just numbers, and indicate which question and part you are answering.

3)      Label all figures and tables such as figure 1, figure 2, table 1, table 2, and then cite them in the text when necessary.

4)      Please don’t include all outputs!! Only include the necessary outputs and make them readable and in proper scale.

 

Week #

Assignment Sets

Due Date

Handouts/dataset

SAS code/ Solutions

0

warm-up

N.A.

 

HTWT.sas

1

hw#1

Oct 17

SAS_ch6 3900_hw#1solution

4950_hw#1solution

2

hw#2

Oct 24

SAS

diet.dat

hw#2_solution

3

hw#3

Nov 2

broker.sas hw#3solution

4

hw#4

Nov 7

  hw#4solution

5

hw#5

Nov 14

qn2.txt hw#5solution

6

hw#6

Nov 21

SAS_regression

dataset: multi-regression.txt

dataset: qn2.txt (parent, math)

hw#6solution

7

hw#7

Dec 5

SAS_crosstabs

dataset: qn2.txt

hw#7solution

SAS code

8

no homework

N.A.

ancova

dataset: qn.txt

SAS code
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Exam & Project

 
Assignment Date/Due Coverage Solutions Remark

Midterm Test

10/31

every thing up to and including one-way ANOVA

test_sol

close book but notes are allowed.

Project

11/28

everything up to and including regression    

Final Exam

12/15

everything

final_sol

 

The Project Outline

Four project topics:     topic 1        topic 2        topic 3       topic 4

Final Exam

    You must bring your student ID and calculator with you!! The final exam will be comprehensive and accumulative exam which covers all materials taught in the course; 20% for before midterm and 80% for after midterm. The exam will hold at NS 207 from 8:00pm-9:50 pm, Dec 12. It is close book but open notes.