MTH225 Spring 2014 Syllabus

Week (Starting)Topics
1 (Jan 13th)Probability: Experiments, outcomes, and events; sample spaces
Discrete random variables; probability mass functions, cumulative distribution functions
Continuous random variables; probability density functions, cumulative distribution functions, percentiles
Law of large numbers
2 (Jan 20th)Parameters; expectation
Variance and standard deviation
Variance-covariance matrices
Point and interval estimates.
3 (Jan 27th)Conditional probability and expectation
Simple regression
Correlation and regression coefficients
4 (Feb 3rd)Multiple regression
design matrices and dummy variables
Effect size and power
5 (Feb 10th)One-way Anova
6 (Feb 17th)Two-way Anova (without interaction)
7 (Feb 24th)Two-way Anova (with interaction)
8 (Mar 3rd)Generalized least squares: Logistic regression
  (Mar 10th)Spring Break
9 (Mar 17th)Midterm Exam
Generalized least squares: Unordered categorical data
10 (Mar 24th)Generalized least squares: Logistic regression
11 (Mar 31st)Hierarchical models
12 (April 7th)Hierarchical models (continued)
13 (April 14th)Contingency tables
14 (April 21st)Spatial models
15 (April 28th)Bootstrap methods