Reading Guide

First I'll give some links: I won't put guidelines for the Zar book on this web page, but a few comments to guide you can be found here (scroll about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way down on the linked web page).

Below are guidelines indicating which sections of the various books match up with which weeks of the semester. Weeks 1 through 14 refer to the 14 lectures scheduled for this semester (but there are two calendar weeks between Week 12 and Week 13 due to not having class on Thanksgiving Eve). I'll use Week 00 to indicate probability and mathematics material that hopefully you already know, and I'll use I'll use Week 0 to indicate introductory material that would be good to read, but which isn't necessarily closely tied to what I cover the first week. I'll use Week X to indicate material that would be good to read, but which isn't necessarily closely tied to what I cover any specific week, but which I may give you in pieces as we go through the semester. With this material, I suggest that you read it as you get to that part of the book that it is in, so that you'll get to it eventually. (My guess is that the sooner you can do any of the reading the better for Bhattacharyya & Johnson (since it should be easy to read and understand, and reading appropriate parts of it before I cover the material in the lectures should be helpful as far as understanding the lectures are concerned). With the Miller book, it may be more efficient to hear me lecture about various parts of it before trying to read them, and with the Wilcox book it may not matter so much what strategy you use.) I'll use skim to indicate material that I won't have time to talk about in class, but that you may want to skim through in order to not lose the continuity of the flow of material in the book. I'll use skip to indicate material that I won't have time to talk about in class, and that you should be able to skip over without affecting your ability to understand later sections of the book. I'll use Week 19 to indicate material that you can skip this semester, but that would be real good to read after the course is over (kind of like how some enjoy the 19th hole on a golf course after the hard part is done).

Bhattacharyya & Johnson

Wilcox

Ch. 1 - Ch. 4
Wilcox's book is organized in such a way that it doesn't flow all that well with the way I present topics during the semester. For example, he touches on regression as early as Ch. 2, and it won't be covered in class until Week 14, and he compares the sample mean and sample median as estimators in Ch. 4, and I won't cover that until Weeks 6 and 7. But since Ch. 5 relates nicely to what I cover in the 2nd half of Week 4, it'd be good to try to read the first four chapters during the first 3 weeks of the semester, and then read Ch. 5 prior to the lecture Week 4.
Ch. 5
A large chuck of Ch. 5, pp. 73-82, corresponds nicely with an important point I make in the 2nd half of lecture Week 4, and so it'd be good to read through p. 82 in time for lecture on Week 4. But then on pp. 83-88 deal with tests about two mean, and I won't cover that in lecture until Weeks 8 and 9.
Ch. 6
You can skim/skip this chapter since I won't have time to cover bootstrap methods (and may not even mention them, although I might try to say just a bit about them). Since bootstrap methods are referred to in later chapters of Wilcox's book, it'll be nice if you can at least skim this chapter.
Ch. 7 - Ch. 9
Most of Ch. 8 and the first part of Ch. 9 match well with what I lecture on Weeks 6 & 7.
Ch. 10 & Ch. 11
The subject matter matches what I cover Week 14, but Wilcox covers many more things than I will have time for. One possibility would be to treat these largely as Week 19 chapters,
I may add more details later about which pages from Wilcox match closely with what I lecture aboutr.

Miller

The last part of the 4th class, and classes 5 through 7, pertain to material covered in Ch. 1. Classes 8 and 9, and the first part of class 10 pertain to Ch. 2. The 2nd part of class 10, class 11, and the very first part of class 12 pertain to Ch. 3. Most of class 12, and the very first part of class 13 pertain to Ch. 4.