Reading Guide

For the 1st lecture (August 29)

Read the Preface and the first two chapters of the text. Ch. 1 will complement my introduction in which I explain what the course is going to cover. Ch. 2 has some very elementary material in it, and I don't plan to discuss all of it (since quite a bit of the material is addressed in the prerequisite courses for STAT 657). But I will cover material towards the end of the chapter, and add to what the text has about confidence intervals. (Note: The material in Ch. 2 isn't mainstream nonparametric statistics, but will be a good way to start the course since some students may not know that they are supposed to read the pertinent sections of the text prior to attending lecture. We'll get into mainstream nonparametric statistics the second week, when hopefully all students will have read Ch. 3 ahead of time.)

For the 2nd lecture (September 5)

We will spend about 2 weeks on Ch. 3 of the text. Prior to the 2nd lecture, please read through the end of Sec. 3.6, and come to class with any questions that you have. (If you think that one of your questions may be hard for me to answer "on the spot" please e-mail it to me by 6 PM on Wednesday (but later on Wednesday is better than nothing, if you don't discover that you have a question until late Wednesday night).) The first part of Ch. 3 should be fairly easy material (and I'll guess the rest of Ch. 3 will be easy as well). We'll try to cover more than half of the chapter during the 2nd lecture, so that I can spend some time talking about StatXact during the 3rd lecture, in addition to finishing our discussion of Ch. 3.

For the 3rd lecture (September 12)

I'll mostly discuss material related to the remaining sections of Ch. 3 of the text (starting with Sec. 3.7). My posted comments about Sections 3.7 through 3.11 (link to pertinent web page is below) indicate some specific topics that I plan to talk about.

For the 4th lecture (September 19)

Read all of Ch. 4 of H&W, but don't worry about the details of the test described in Sec. 4.4. I consider Sec. 4.1 to be the most important section of Ch. 4. Sec. 4.5 is important too, but it's rather short. If you read my comments about Ch. 4 (see the link to them below), you should be able to identify important points to focus on.

You can also read some of Ch. 9 of the StatXact 5 User Manual. Besides the W-M-W test and normal scores test from Ch. 4 of H&W, the tests from StatXact that I'll discuss this week are the Savage scores test, (Pitman's) permutation test, and the use of StatXact's permutation test to perform other linear rank tests that aren't included on the menus of StatXact.

For the 5th lecture (September 26)

Read all of Ch. 5 of H&W. Don't worry if you don't come away from the book understanding why the jackknife procedure of Sec. 5.2 works --- much more explanation would have to be added in order for a typical reader who lacks a good background in jackkniffing to understand why the procedure works.

I'll discuss some additional two-sample tests that are included in the StatXact 5 User Manual. I may also briefly mention some tests that are included in Miller's Beyond ANOVA.

For the 6th lecture (October 3)

Read Sec. 6.1 and Sec. 6.2 of H&W.

I'll start by finishing my discussion of the jackknife procedure of Sec. 5.2 of H&W. Then I'll discuss another two-sample test that's on StatXact. (Wrapping up Ch. 5 should take less than 45 minutes.)

I'll discuss some additional k-sample tests that are included in the StatXact 5 User Manual in addition to the tests covered by the first two sections of Ch. 6 of H&W. (Some of these tests are included in Ch. 3 of Miller's Beyond ANOVA.)

For the 7th lecture (October 10)

Read Sec. 6.3 through Sec. 6.7 of H&W.

Section 6.5 is the most important of these sections. I plan to discuss Sec. 6.3.A, Section 6.4, and Sec. 6.5 rather carefully, to help make sure that you understand when and how to use the procedures covered in these sections. I'll briefly discuss 6.3.B, 6.6, and 6.7, but I don't plan to discuss 6.8, 6.9, and 6.10 (and so after we get through 6.7, I'll move ahead to Ch. 7).

For the 8th lecture (October 17)

Read Sec. 7.1 through Sec. 7.4 of H&W. I'll also discuss Quade's test from the StatXact manual.

For the 9th lecture (October 24)

Read the rest of Ch. 7 of H&W. I'll add comments to the web page indicated below which will indicate which parts of Ch. 7 I think are the most important. I'm not going to cover all of the remaining sections in great detail. I'll also give some indications here of how extensively I'll cover each of the remaining sections of Ch. 7 in class. (I'll add to this part later on this week.) As a way of making some comparisons, I'll indicate that so far I have

For the 10th lecture (October 31)

Read Ch. 8 of H&W. Due to the fact that I have prepared lecture notes for all sections except for Sec. 8.5 at this point, and I feel as though I'm way behind this week since I'm scheduled to give the department seminar of Friday morning, and I need to squeeze in some time to prepare for that, and I don't think that I can finish Ch. 7 and do all of Ch. 8 this week, I think it's safe to say that you can skip reading Sec. 8.5 for now if you're running short of time. Since I also want to discuss the exact version of the test based on Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient that StatXact can do, I think I'll just plan of discussing Sec. 8.5 next week, and include the extra test found on StatXact then.

For the 11th lecture (November 7)

I'll finish Ch. 8, and start Ch. 9. The first few sections of Ch. 9 are relatively simple, and so maybe we can cover at least 3 or 4 of them.

For the 12th lecture (November 14)

I'll finish Ch. 9, and perhaps also cover the first section of Ch. 10.

For the 13th lecture (November 21)

I'll finish Ch. 9 (this time, for sure), and cover most of Ch. 10.

For the 14th lecture (December 5)

I'll finish Ch. 10, talk some about the K-S goodness-of-fit test (which can be done using StatXact), and cover Sec. 11.1 of H&W.