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Last updated: Mon Oct 5 2026, 10:39

Syllabus

Welcome to the course website for STA 350, Categorical Data Analysis. To begin, you can find the course syllabus linked below:

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Course Materials

Week 1 (Introduction)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
- - - -
- - - -
Fri 8/28 Introduction - -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Download R
  2. Download R Studio

Week 2 (Inference)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 8/31 Likelihoods and MLE Ch 1.1-1.3
Wed 9/2 Inference for \(\pi\) Ch 1.3-1.4
Fri 8/28 Methods and Misc for Inference Ch 1.3-1.4

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 1 due Friday, Sep 11 in class

Week 3 (Tables and Associations)

Date Lecture Reading
Mon 9/7 Labor Day -
Wed 9/9 Contingency Tables 2.1-2.2
Fri 9/11 Association of Categorical Variables 2.2-2.3

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 1 due Friday, Sep 11
  2. Homework 2 due Friday, Sep 25

Week 4 (Tables and Associations)

Date Lecture Reading
Mon 9/14 Odds Ratio and RR 2.3
Wed 9/16 \(\chi^2\) Statistic 2.4
Fri 9/18 \(\chi^2\) (Residuals and Partition) 2.4

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 2 due Friday, Sep 25
  2. Gender and Ideology

Week 5 (Tables and Tables and Tables)

Date Lecture Reading
Mon 9/21 Fisher Test 2.6.1-2.6.2
Wed 9/23 Three-way tables 2.7
Fri 9/25 Three-way tables 2.7

Assignments and Deadlines:

Week 6 (Exam, GLM)

Date Lecture Reading
Mon 9/28 Simpson’s Paradox, Review 2.7
Wed 9/30 Exam 1
Fri 10/2 Intro to GLM 3.1-3.2

Assignments and Deadlines:

  • Exam 1 on Wednesday, written 50 minutes but we can stay 60ish
  • Homework 3 will be posted on Friday
  • Homework 2 will be graded by Tuesday

Week 7 (GLM)

Date Lecture Reading
Mon 10/5 GLM, Deviance 3.3-3.4
Wed 10/7 Logistic Regression 4.1, 4.2
Fri 10/9

Assignments and Deadlines: