Notes and references on simulation including details of the S-PLUS PRNG.
Notes and references on robustness
Exegeses on Linear Models by Dr Bill Venables. This is a thought-provoking (and witty) article on some of the issues covered here and (additive models) in Computer-Intensive Statistics. You may want to defer reading it until the end of the course or even later in year.
Wald, score and likelihood ratio tests
`t tools' and nonparametric tests
Chi-squared and Fisher exact tests
Design of investigations (Sir David Cox).
YY Teo's Lectures: Lecture 1 Lecture 2
Logistic and log-linear models
S-PLUS script for Insurance example of Poisson regression.
Exercises on methods for count data
Advice on writing-up practical sessions.
Week 3 (Monday) practical handout and script file.
Week 4 practical handout and script file.
Week 6 practical handout, script file and dataset Atomic.sdd.
Week 7 practical handout and data set islands.dat. initial feedback.
S-PLUS additional libraries that are used in the practicals.
These are .zip files which should be unpacked in your
S-PLUS library directory, perhaps
c:\Program Files\Insightful\splus62\library.