Statistics 205:  Nonparametric Statistics

Spring 2008   ●   T Th   12:50-2:05 PM      Hewlett 103

Nancy R. Zhang    nzhang atstanford    Office Hours:  Tues  2:15-4:00 PM Sequoia Hall 141   


TA:   Nick Annoni Office hours Wednesday 2:30-5 PM  (ndannoni@stanford.edu)  
         
Grader:   Peter Banwarth  (banwarp@gmail.com)  
         
Required Text:        
  Lehmann, E., Nonparametrics: Statistical Methods Based on Ranks, revised first edition.
  Efron, B. and Tibshirani, R., An Introduction to the Bootstrap.  
         
Pre-requisites:        
  Any introductory statistics course.  
Anouncements:

     4/7:  The bookstore will have extra copies of the Lehmann text by 4/15.  In the meantime, if you don't have the book, you can pick up photocopies of chapters 1 & 2 at Helen's office in the Stat department.

     4/20: Note that the syllabus has been updated. 

     4/30: Note that the syllabus has been updated, midterm is next Tuesday, in class.  You can bring 1 (double sided) page of notes.  You also should bring calculators. Photocopies of tables from back of book will be provided.

     5/8: Midterm solutions will be posted shortly, they are currently being graded and scores will be posted by Sunday.

     5/8: After the current homework assignment, there will be one more homework. 

     5/12: Typo for problem 6.10 in homework 5: the question listed 10 numbers rather than 8: it appears that a decimal point was replaced
by a comma in two places, and that the data set should be: 1.2, 3.5, 4.7, 7.3, 8.6, 12.4, 13.8, 18.1.

    6/3: Please turn in your projects to me personally on Friday (June 6) before 5 pm at the latest.  If I am not there slip under my door. 

 

Tentative Plan:       
         
Week Date   Topic Assigned problems
         
1 Tues 4/1 Lehmann 1: Review, Introduction  
  Thurs 4/3 Lehmann 1: Asymptotic null, ties Due 4/10: Lehmann Chpt 1: 8, 23, 24, 49,92
2 Tues 4/8 Lehmann 1: Two sided alternatives, other topics    Problem set 1 solutions, correction , grading criteria.
  Thurs 4/10 Lehmann 2: Introduction to population models Due 4/17: Lehmann Chpt 1: 60, 99, Chpt 2: 1, 2, 6
3 Tues 4/15 Lehmann 2: Power    Problem set 2 solutions, grading criteria
  Thurs 4/17 Lehmann 2: Power Due 4/24: Lehmann Chpt 2: 10,13,16,44,52, Appendix 35
4 Tues 4/22 Lehmann 2: Effect estimation    Problem set 3 solutions, grading criteria
  Thurs 4/24 Lehmann 3: Paired Comparisons Due 5/1: Lehmann Chpt 2: 20, 21, Chpt 3: 34, 35, Chp 4: 6,13
5 Tues 4/29 Lehmann 4: Population Model for Paired Comparisons    Problem set 4 solutions, grading criteria
  Thurs 5/1 Lehmann 5: Kruskal Wallis Test  
6 Tues 5/6 Midterm Last year's midterm, 2008 midterm solutions, grading criteria
  Thurs 5/8 Efron & Tibshirani 4-6: Plug-in principle, Bootstrap std. err.  R examples Due 5/15: Efron & Tibshirani: 6.2, 6.5, 6.10, 7.3, 12.5
7 Tues 5/13 Efron & Tibshirani 12-14: Bootstrap confidence intervals. R examples, mathmark.txt    Problem set 5 solutions, grading criteria
  Thurs 5/15 Efron & Tibshirani 10-11: Bias estimates, Jackknife      R examples Due 5/22: Efron & Tibshirani: 11.3, 11.10, 11.13, 15.4, 16.4
8 Tues 5/20 Efron & Tibshirani 15-16: Hypothesis testing               R examples    Problem set 6 solutions
  Thurs 5/22 Efron & Tibshirani 9: Regression models  
9 Tues 5/27 Efron & Tibshirani 8: Advanced bootstrap topics R examples for 5/20 and 5/22  
  Thurs 5/29 Final Project  
10 Tues 6/3 Final Project  
         
Grading Policy:        
         
Homeworks (roughly weekly):  40%  
Midterm:  30%      
Final:  30%