CL 335

M, W 4-5:15

Allan Sampson(asampson@stat.pitt.edu)

OFFICE HOURS M5:15-6:00 and W1-2 and by appointment CL2701

Applied Linear Statistical Methods 4^th Ed.

Neter, Kutner, Nachtsheim, and Wasserman

© 1996 Irwin Publishing

SAS For Linear Models 4^th Ed.

Littell, Stroup, and Freund

© 2002 SAS Publishing/ Wiley-Interscience

***NOTE*** SAS maintains a library of information that you can access at no charge.

TA: Jeongeun Kim(jek24@pitt.edu)

Office Hours: T1:30-3:30 CL2632

HOMEPAGE

This is the first semester of a two-semester course. Both semesters will cover the Neter et al text with appropriate selections from the Littel text. Depending on the topic, the instructor will supplement the materials in Neter et al with more in-depth handouts. The first semester will cover at a minimum of Chapters 1-12 of the Neter et al text. Depending on the backgrounds of the students in the class some of Chapters 13 and 14 may also be covered in the first semester.

Homework will be assigned as the corresponding materials are covered in lecture. All homework assigned in a given week is due at the end of lecture on the following Wednesday. For example, all homework assigned during the week of August 26-30 will be due on September 4.

In addition, "special" more involved homework assignments will be given during the semester and these assignments will have their own due dates, separate from weekly homework due dates. These "special" assignments will be clearly so designated in class.

***NOTE*** Students are allowed and, in fact, encouraged to discuss homework with each other. However, all assignments are to be written separately. IN ADDITION, there will be a few homework assignments that will require the students to work separately.

These will be clearly indicated.

There will be one midterm and it will be announced in class approximately two weeks prior to its occurrence.

 FINAL

There will be a final exam.

Relative weights are 35% for homework, 30% for the midterm, and 35% for the final.

These weights may change slightly at the instructor's prerogative during the semester.