This page indexes reading assignments for Stat 5421.
- For September 11, 2021, read Agresti, Sections 1.1 through 1.4. Skip the stuff that doesn't make sense. Some of this material is gone into in gory detail by Agresti in later chapters or by us in Course Notes. Also read the course notes that go along with this material in Agresti. We will lecture off of these notes, so again one can skip stuff that seems too hard or too unfamiliar, but the lecture will make more sense if you have at least looked at the relevant sections of the textbook and the notes. We won't cover all of this material on the day it is due. So one can continue reading as the lectures progress.
- For September 22, 2021, read Agresti, Section 1.5.
- For September 27, 2021, read Agresti, Sections 2.1 and 2.2. Also look at Stat 5421 Lecture Notes: Simple Chi-Square Tests for Contingency Tables. We will lecture on these, but taking a look before may be helpful.
- For October 4, 2021, read Agresti, Chapter 4, Section 4.1 through 4.3.
- For October 6, 2021, look over handouts on likelihood and likelihood computation.
- For October 15, 2021, look over handouts on Bayesian Inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Conjugate Priors. Give special attention to the first part of the notes on Bayesian inference (before the computing examples), especially if you have not seen Bayesian inference before.
- For November 1, 2021, read Agresti, Chapter 8, Sections 8.1.1 through 8.1.4 and 8.2.1 through 8.2.4, which go with the notes on Agresti Chapter 8.
- For November 5, 2021, read Agresti, Chapter 4, Sections 4.3.3 and 4.7, which go with the notes on overdispersion.
- For November 8, 2021, start reading notes on exponential families of distributions. There will be lecture about these but the lecture will make a lot more sense if you have read over these notes. Try to stay ahead of the lecture on this.
- For November 17, 2021, read Agresti, Chapter 9, Sections 9.1 through 9.4, which go with the notes on Agresti Chapter 9.
