統計諮詢 (Statistical Consulting)
     --Second Semester of the 97th School Year(2009/02-2009/07)

Class:

• Master students of the Department of Statistics.

Credits:

• 0/3

Class time:

• 09:10-12:00, Tuesday

Lecturer's Information:

• Tzong-Ru Tsai
• Office: B1102
• Tel: 02-2621-5656 Ext. 2632
• E-mail: trtsai@stat.tku.edu.tw
• Homepage http://www1.stat.tku.edu.tw/~trtsai

• The course is concerned with consulting experience in data analysis and applied statistics. The student is expected to learn communication techniques and study cases from various fields of real-world data.

Prerequisite Course:

• Regression Analysis, Design of Experiment, Multivariate Analysis.
• SAS or R, Latex.

Reference Books:

• Basic Statistical Methods:

• Box, G. E. P., Hunter, W. G. and Hunter, J. S. (1978). Statistics for Experimenters, Wiley.
• Draper, N. R. and Smith, H. (1998). Applied Regression Analysis, 3rd. ed., Wiley.
• Hicks, C. R. (1999). Fundamental Concepts in the Design of Experiments, 5th ed., Oxford University Press.
• Johnson, R. A. and Wichern, D. (1998). Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis, 4th. ed., Printice-Hall.
• Milliken, G. A. and Johnson, D. E. (1992). Analysis of Messy Data. Vol. I: Designed Experiments, 2nd ed., Chapman & Hall.
• Montgomery, D. C. (1997). Design and Analysis of Experiments, 4th ed., Wiley.
• Neter, J., Kutner, M. H., Nachtsheim, C. J., and Wasserman, W. (1996). Applied Linear Statistical Models, 4th ed., Irwin.
• Sharma, S. (1996). Applied Multivariate Techniques, Wiley.
• Yandell, B. (1997). Practical Data Analysis for Designed Experiments, Chapman & Hall.

• Statistical Software:

• Littell, R. C., Stroup, W. W. and Freund, R. J. (2002). SAS for Linear Models, 4th ed., SAS Institute Inc.
• Litell, R., Milliken, G., Stroup, W., Wolfinger, R., and Schabenberger, O. (2006). SAS for Mixed Models, 2nd ed., SAS Institute Inc.
• 路繼先 (2004)。統計程式設計，成大圖書部。

• Statistical Consulting

• Cabrera, J. and McDougall, A. (2001). Statistical Consulting, Springer.
• Derr, J. (2000). Statistical Consulting: A Guide to Effective Communication, Duxbury Press.
• Kenett, R. and Thyregod, P. (2006). Aspects of statistical consulting not taught by academia, Statistica Neerlandica, 60, 396-422.
• Lenth, R. V. (2001). Some practical guidelines for effective sample size determination, The American Statistician, 55, 187-193.
• Pfannkuch, M. and Wild, C. J. (2000). Statistical thinking and statistical practice: themes gleaned from professional statisticians, Statistical Science, 15, 132-152.
• Parker, R. A. (2000). Estimating the value of an internal biostatistical consulting service, Statistics in Medicine, 19, 2131-2145.
• Tweedie, R. (1998). Consulting: real problems, real interactions, real outcomes, Statistical Science, 13, 1-29.

Course Outline:

• Real data analysis
• Group discussion--Case study

Grading:

• Class participation：30% 
• Report：70% 

Attention:

• Please turn off the cell phone or switch to vibration during the class.
• Do not eat in class.
• 請勿使用非法影印書籍.