STAT 306 - Department of Statistics - University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia, Department of StatisticsSTAT 306 Finding Relationships in Data2012-2013 Term 2_______________________________________________________________________DescriptionInstructorOffice hoursClass place/timeCourse web pageCourse textModeling a response (output) variable as a function of severalexplanatory (input) variables: multiple regression for a continuousresponse and logistic regression for a binary response. Findinglow-dimensional structure: principal components analysis, clusteranalysis.Term 2: Yew-Wei LimTBALecture: Tues and Thurs, 9:30am -11:00am.Term 2: Earth Sciences Building 1012TBACourse notes (from UBC Bookstore)Prerequisite One of MATH 152, MATH 221, MATH 223 and one of STAT 200,STAT 241, STAT 251, BIOL 300 and one of MATH 302, STAT 302.Co-requisiteCredit exclusionNoneConsult the Credit Exclusion list within the Faculty of Sciencesection in the calendar.STAT 306 COURSE OUTLINEPart 1:- Simple linear regression: least squares- Basic probability : expectation, variance, covariance- Multiple regression: regression in matrix notation, least squares estimation, inferencefor regression parameters, categorical predictors, transformations- Residual analysis and model diagnostics- Variable selection: stepwise methods, cross-validation

Part 2: (some topics from list below)- Logistic regression for binary data- Principal components analysis- Cluster analysisYL/es Date of last revision: 2012/20132