STA 4504: Categorical Data Analysis

Instructor. Aaron J. Molstad (amolstad@ufl.edu)
Office hours. Tuesday 2:30–4:30PM in Griffin Floyd 202
Teaching assistant. Ziqian Yang (zi.yang@ufl.edu)
TA Office hours. Wednesday, 2:00-4:00PM in Griffin Floyd 234
Syllabus. [pdf]
Lecture. Tuesday 12:50 - 1:40PM, Thursday 12:50 - 2:45PM in Griffin Floyd 100

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  Lecture   Topics  
  1 (1/10)   Syllabus, review of key concepts [slides][complete][R1.1]  
  1 (1/12)   Review, inference on proportion  
  2 (1/17)   Contingency tables, odds ratios [slides][complete][R2.1]  
  2 (1/19)   Testing indepedence, likelihood ratio  

Homework 1 (Due Thursday, January 26th at 4:00pm) [pdf][submission]


  3 (1/24)   Three-way contingency tables, GLMs [slides][complete][R3.1]  
  3 (1/26)   Logistic and probit regression [R3.2][R3.3]  
  4 (1/31)   Comparing nested GLMs, overdispersion [slides][R4.1]  
  4 (2/2)   Logistic regression models [R4.2]  
  5 (2/7)   Multiple predictors [slides][R]  

Homework 2 (Due Thursday, February 9th at 5:00pm) [pdf][submission]


  5 (2/9)   Predictive performance metrics [R]  
  5 (2/14)   Model building and checking  
  6 (2/21)   Goodness of fit tests [slides]  
  6 (2/23)   Baseline category logit models  

Homework 3 (Due Sunday, February 26th at 5:00pm) [pdf][submission]


  6 (2/28)   Baseline category logit models  
  0 (3/3)   Exam review  

Exam 1 [submission]


  7 (3/21)   Cumulative logit models [slides]  
  7 (3/23)   Cumulative logit models  
  0 (3/28)   Exam 1 discussion  
  8 (3/30)   Correlated data [slides]  

Homework 4 (Due Thursday, April 6th at 5:00pm) [pdf][submission]