Statistics 998

Statistical Consulting

Fall 2013 Schedule

Date	Topic	Handouts	Items Due	Other Useful Stuff
Sept. 3	Intro Material Begin Mixed Model Example	Class Description Guide to Data Analysis Report Evaluation Report Outline Corn Yield Background Corn Yield Data Diagnostic Assignment	None	None
Sept. 5	Mixed Models	Diesel Problem Handout Diesel Data	Graph of corn yield data	ggplot() examples for corn data Baayen, Davidson, Bates 2008 paper on mixed models Bolker et al paper on mixed models
Sept. 10	Mixed model for corn example Diesel assignment	Assignment and table for diesel reports	Estimates of irrigation effects by variety with SEs from corn data List of several questions for the engineer who provided the diesel data A key graph of the diesel data.
Sept. 12	Discussion of diesel assignment reports	Honeybee Assignment Honeybee Data	First diagnostic assignment
Sept. 17	Visit by Fabrizzio Sanchez	Major Project 1 Background Forest Data (Excel file)	Second diagnostic assignment
Sept. 19	Discussion of honeybee study Discussion of questions for the first client		10 or more questions for first client Third diagnostic assignment Honeybee assignment
Sept. 24	First visit by Kristen Michels	Example Calculations Slides
Sept. 26	Discussion of diagnostic assignment
Oct. 1	Second visit by Kristen Michels
Oct. 3	Discussion of diagnostic assignment (continued)
Oct. 8	Karl Broman visit		First major assignment.
Oct. 10	Interferon Example	Interferon data (Excel spreadsheet) Interferon data (text) Interferon assignment
Oct. 15	Interferon Presentations		Interferon assignment.
Oct. 17	First visit by Lauren Riters/Melissa Cordes	Major Project 2 background Major Project 2 (Starlings) data (Excel spreadsheet)
Oct. 22	Derr Communication Examples			1.mov 2a.mov 2b.mov 3.mov 4a.mov 4b.mov 5.mov 6.mov 7.mov 8.mov 9.mov Biologist talks to Statistician Statistician talks to Biologist
Oct. 24	Second visit from Lauren Riters/Melissa Cordes
Oct. 29	Overview of first project analysis	Communication Assignment.		Model Report
Oct. 31	Copepod group assignment	Copepod data Copepod assignment
Nov. 5	Practice consulting with Copepod salinity project		Second Major Project
Nov. 7	Observe Nordheim in first consulting session		Copepod Group Assignment
Nov. 12	Discussion of Copepod Salinity Project		Nordheim write-up
Nov. 14	Masters Exam - NO CLASS
Nov. 19	Discussion of second project	Multiple comparisons assignment
Nov. 21	Discussion about papers on multiple testing and hypothesis testing	Curran-Everett Paper Tukey Paper Gelman et al. Paper	Multiple Comparisons assignment	Ethics assignment
Nov. 26	Ethics Discussion / Honor in Science Book		Ethics assignment
Nov. 28	Thanksgiving - NO CLASS
Dec. 3	Dave Demets presentation
Dec. 5	Kevin Buhr presentation
Dec. 10	Oral presentation of final projects
Dec. 12	Oral presentation of final projects