Advanced Quantitative MethodsDale Easleyemail me at deasley@dbq.eduCourse NotesI took this picture while at an NSF-sponsored short-course on teaching energy held at the University of Wyoming, my alma mater.. |
 Windmill, Wyoming |
| Preliminaries: First Day PreTest Intro to the Course |
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| Section 1 (Chapters 1-2): | |
| Notes Projects Fire-Ant Opening Talk Sampling Problems Data Types Treatments and Controls Samples and Populations Modelling Data Nonparametric Statistics |
Assignments and Data sets PreTest First Assignment: FireAnts.pdf and jpg of Fire Ant Map FireAntsPart2.pdf and Excel file of Fire Ant observations Random.pdf and HistogramsofDistributions.xlsx NaCl instructions and NaCl data |
| Section 2 (Chapters 3-4): | |
| Notes Hypothesis Testing 1 Statistical Tests Statistical Tests continued Nonparametric Statistical Tests |
Assignments and Data sets Histograms Worked example 4.2:Powerplant data Worked example 4.3:Invertebrate at sewage outflow Non-normal data t and F test practice Excel functions for T and Probability See Fig. 2.10: Data for box-and-whiskers plots |
| Section 3 (Chapters 5-6): | |
| Notes Correlation and Regression F test for regression fit Covariance matrices Project management Chi-Squared tests |
Assignments and Data sets Data for Regression Data for Correlation with pH Example 5.1 Data Chi-squared examples River Pools opening assignment Hackberry data |
| Section 4 (Chapter 7): | |
| Notes Classification schemes Background for article Article for discussion |
Assignments and Data sets Barataria sediment samples and data set Contamination problem Soil remediation problem and data set Alternative regression fits Frequency analysis |