2005 ICPSR SUMMER PROGRAM

REGRESSION III: ADVANCED METHODS

Lectures

Click on the following links to see the lectures for each week of the workshop. Note that materials will be added to this page after each lecture is completed. Lectures are distributed as PDF versions of the slides shown in each class session.

• First Week
• Tuesday, June 28: Introduction
• Wednesday, June 29: Brief Introduction to Course Software
• Thursday, June 30: Basic Graphical Displays
• Friday, July 1: Data Transformations

• Second Week
• Tuesday, July 5: Basic least-squares estimates
• Wednesday, July 6: (1) Statistical inference and (2) Dummy variables
• Thursday, July 7: Dummy variables, interactions, and effect plots
• Friday, July 8: (1) Standardizing variables and relative importance and (2) the vector geometry of regression

• Third Week
• Monday and Tuesday, July 11-12: The vector geometry of regression analysis
• Wednesday, July 13: Outliers, leverage, and influence
• Thursday and Friday, July 14-15: Robust regression

• Fourth Week
• Monday, July 18: Nonconstant error variance and nonlinear functional forms
• Tuesday, July 19: Bivariate loess (or "lowess") smoothing
• Wednesday, July 20: Multivariate loess and additive models

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