MultiModel Inference

STAT 792

Dr. Dwight Galster

SDSU F2007

Syllabus 

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We will begin by reading the syllabus.  Note the paragraph that explains the requirements of the course (Instructional Procedure).  The first assignment is to read and outline the two papers listed below.  The first is a pdf made from a scan, so it is a large file (apologies).

The Case Against Statistical Significance Testing by Ronald P. Carver

Information theory and hypothesis testing: a call for pluralism, by Philip A. Stephens, et. al.

9/6  Introduction and organization  Video

9/11 Discuss two papers Notes (Angela)  Video

9/13 Discuss textbook pages 1-23  Notes (Nick)  Video

9/18 Discuss textbook pages 23-43  Notes (Melissa)  Video

9/20 Discuss textbook pages 43-58  Notes (Tom) Video

9/25 Discuss textbook pages 58-74  Notes (Steve)Video

9/27 Discuss textbook pages 74-85  Notes (Andy)  Video

Lewis-Clark Sauger Data
Stock Recruitment Data

10/2  Discuss textbook pages 85-106  Notes (Angela)  Video

10/9  Discuss textbook pages 106-136, SAS Program with AIC in REG 
         S-R Curves Code  Notes (Nick)  Video

10/11 Discuss textbook pages 137-148  Notes (Melissa)  Video

10/16 Discuss textbook pages 149-177  Notes (Andy)  Video

10/23 Discuss textbook pages 177-205  Notes (Tom)  Video

10/25 SAS programs and results  Video

10/30 Discuss textbook pages 205-235  Notes (Steve)  Video

11/1  Discuss textbook pages 235-266  Notes (Angela)  Video

11/6  Discuss the first three articles contributed by class members (listed below)  Video

11/8 Discuss articles contributed by class members  Video

Articles contributed by class members
Melissa  Bunnell Crappie Recruitment 2006
Nick  Dauwalter Electrofishing 2007
Tom  Rich Bull Trout 2003
Andy Paulsen Salmon Survival 2005
Angela  Gilbert Black-Tailed Deer 2007
Steve  Link & Barker compare AIC and BIC approaches  B&A response

11/13 No class meeting.  Please view video and SAS program here SAS Program  Video and see the links to SAS below.
        You should be working on Melissa's data (below) and any other data you wish to contribute for class discussion.

Direct link to SAS documentation for proc logistic Examples and proc genmod Examples.
The Details section of proc logistic has some interesting stuff on a variety of topics, including odds ratios.

Melissa's data: Excel, CSV, SAS, and documentation
  Note:  Big and Slow are related to Fine and Fast (linear dependence), FEco and Drain are character variables with more than two levels.
  You might want to start with something like this:

proc logistic data=fish;
model crch=VegCov LWD Brush OhVeg Human Agric LogSub Slope Fine  Sinu Depth SDDep Width SDWid WidDep SDWD
Fast Pool Dry Veloc MVel SDVel BankW BankH Under Incise Ground Embed Cond Temp Turb Ph NatRich
RiCrch RiFami RiLoda NatPisc IntPisc PerBlbu PerCoca PerGrsu PerNopi PreNopi PerInt PIBlbu PICoca
PIPlki SWDiv DCrch DFami DLoda Long Lat WsArea WatYield RdDen RdLen Strahl DsDam UsDam GwNum PCost
AnnFld  IrrTL IrrDen Water Snow Devel Commer Rock Mines Trans Forest Shrub Grass Hay Crop
Fallow Wetlan SoilPerm MaxSalt AveSalt WTDepL WTDepA SoilEr WsElev PtElev RelGrad/selection=score best=10 stop=5;
run;

Another Contributed Data set:  Bullhead data and paper

11/15 Discuss Bullhead data and SAS programming tips  Video

11/20  More Bullhead data--Model Averaging  Video

11/27  Discuss chapter 6 sections 1-5   Video

11/29  Guest Presentation  Video

12/4 Chapter 8?  SAS examples

12/6 No class

12/11 No class

12/13

 

Chapter 1 MARK  http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/docs/book/   In the lower right, pick chapter one.

David Anderson homepage  http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/~anderson/index.html  He has links to some of his reprints that may be good for discussion.

Homepage for course taught by Anderson and White, much of the material is MARK related, but they also have outlines on MLE, likelihood ratio tests, etc. that we discuss.  http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/class_info/fw663/Mark.html  

Excerpt from "The Lady Tasting Tea" by David Salsburg, pages 112-113, pages 114-115.  Neyman and Deming were two big opponents of hypothesis testing on philosophical grounds.

Misc Papers
http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2004/21842/apa.html

http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/getDoc/en/imlug.hlp/timeseriesexpls_sect9.htm

SAS Papers on Poisson Regression
http://support.sas.com/faq/009/FAQ00999.html
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi24/Stats/p265-24.pdf

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