Psychology 614: Analyzing Multivariate Data

COURSE SYLLABUS

INSTRUCTOR

GSIs E-mail to Class Discussion Group
 

GSI Office Hours

Jennifer: Fri 1-3 (except 12-2 on 1/16/04), B254 EH
Yuri: Thur 12-2, B250 EH

COMPUTING

SPSS handout
Contrasts for Stata (for the Stata users); Contrasts in repeated measures in Stata
Contrasts in R (for the R users)
Computer Sites Outside East Hall
Information on Transferring Files
Purchasing SPSS Grad Pack (Windows)
Purchasing SPSS Grad Pack (Mac)
How to edit unix files.
How to download ADDTREE.


PROBLEM SETS, DATA, HINTS, AND SOLUTIONS

Problem Set #1 (Salary Data--delete "txt" suffix ) (Drug Data--delete "txt" suffix) (Solutions)
Problem Set #2 (Solutions)
Problem Set #3 (group project)
Problem Set #4 (Data Set) (Solutions)
Problem Set #5 (Data Set)

NOTE: If you can't view the pdf files, you need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader.


DEMOS

New contrast procedure for SPSS: command file (delete the "txt" suffix) and readme file.
Canonical Correlation (delete the ".txt" suffix)
Visualizing eigenvalues and eigenvectors (will be covered in lecture)


NERDY STUFF

 Some interactive Java applets at Rice
 An interactive linear regression program with residuals
 Page of statistics sites
 Another page of interactive statistics sites
 Page of various computing tools
 A 3D demonstration on what can go wrong with a pseudo random number generator
 A geometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

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