TOPICS AND PROBLEM TYPES COVERED FOR FALL 2008
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Topic coverage in the book and handouts:

Chapters 1, 2. 
From Chapter 3: sections 3.E (but did not cover "Proc Format"), 
                plus 3.G, 3.I, 3.L, 3.M.
From Chapter 4: sections 4.E, 4.I (Proc Means only), 4.J.
From Chapter 5: sections A--F and J.
From Chapter 6: sections A, B, F.

(NOTE: in material covered on past tests, relative risk and 
       odds ratios have not been covered yet this year.)

Miscellaneous SAS input-output operations :
   INPUT, INFILE, LIBNAME, inputting and 
        concatenating SAS datasets.
   PROC SORT, MEANS, writing output files.
   Plotting & bar-charts.
   Data step syntax.

Handouts:  Partial Correlation  (PartialCorr.pdf)
           Regression            (RegrSheet2.pdf)
Scripts :  various, but especially   Scripts/Corr.Log   
                                     Scripts/FreqExmp.Log
Logs:      all in the NewLogs directory, because these
           were discussed in some detail in class.

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Topics for Test Problems, Fall 08:

(i) "How To" questions using SAS data-steps and PROC's.

(ii) Interpretation of SAS output quantities. Hypothesis 
    test formulations. Conclusions about data from plots,
    p-values, etc. Motivation for SAS analyses in response
    to questions asked about the data. Use of descriptive 
    statistics (including freq tables and side-by-side 
    box-plots and one- and two-sample t-statistics).

(iii) Definitions of statistics (one-way chisq for fit,
    two-way chisq for row-column independence, 
    McNemar & Kappa for "agreement", correlation, partial 
    correlation, t statistic for significance of slope 
    or intercept)

(iv) Linear-algebra interpretation of projections in 
    relation to predictors, residuals, correlations, 
    partial correlations.

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1 Two-sided Notebook sheet of memory aids will be allowed
   in the in-class test on Monday, Oct. 24, 2008.

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The test will probably consist of 3 problems. You should 
bring a calculator, but numerical simplifications will 
not be required for your final answers.