Tentative Schedule: Spring 2006
		STA 575 Nonparametric Statistics
		Topics/Events		Reading	Homework
T	10-Jan	Preliminaries		pp. 1-10
TH	12-Jan	One sample methods	Binomial test and CI	pp. 11-17	Ch 1: 1,3,5,6,7,supplement
T	17-Jan		Inferences for percentiles	pp. 17-21
TH	19-Jan		Type I error and Power
T	24-Jan	Two sample methods	Permutation test	pp. 23-35	Ch 2: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,12,13,15,18
TH	26-Jan		Random sampling; WRS test	pp. 35-49
T	31-Jan		MW test and interval	pp. 49-51
TH	2-Feb		Tests for scale	pp. 51-58
T	7-Feb		Choosing among two-sample tests	pp. 58-65
TH	9-Feb	K-sample methods	Permutation test	pp. 79-90	Ch 3: 1,3,4,5,6,8,9,10
T	14-Feb		KW test	pp. 92-99
TH	16-Feb
T	21-Feb
TH	23-Feb		MCs, Ordered alternatives
T	28-Feb	Paired comparisons	Permutation test	pp. 109-116	Ch 4: 1,2,3,4,5,6
TH	2-Mar		Sign and signed-rank test	pp. 117-127
T	7-Mar	Spring Break
TH	9-Mar	Spring Break
T	14-Mar	Blocked designs	Permutation test; Friedman's test	pp. 127-141	Ch 4: 7,9,10,11
TH	16-Mar	Tests for trends and associations	Permutation tests; Midterm due	pp. 145-153	Ch 5: 1,2,3,6,7,8,9,11,12
T	21-Mar		Rank correlation	pp. 163-172
TH	23-Mar		Contingency table permutation test	pp. 172-179
T	28-Mar	NO CLASS
TH	30-Mar		Ordered alternatives	pp. 179-186
T	4-Apr		Mantel-Haenszel test	pp. 186-189
TH	6-Apr		McNemar's test
T	11-Apr	Nonparametric bootstrap methods	Basic bootstrap	pp. 249-254	Ch 8: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
TH	13-Apr		Location-scale models	pp. 254-266
T	18-Apr		Percentile, BCA methods	pp. 266-275
TH	20-Apr		Regression and correlation	pp. 276-283
T	25-Apr	Smoothing and robust model fitting	Density estimation	pp. 323-326	Ch 10: 1,2,3
TH	27-Apr		Smoothing; Final Exam	pp. 326-329
T	9-May	Final Exam due