36-763: Hierarchical Linear ModelsFall 2013 (Mini II)Instructor: Teaching Assistant:Brian Junker, Statistics Patrick Foley132E Baker Hall WEH 8121268-8874
268-6804brian@stat.cmu.edu pfoley@stat.cmu.eduOffice Hours (132E Baker): Office Hours (WEH 8110):(1) Immed. after class (1) 1:00pm Wednesdays(2) By appointment (2) By appointmentThis course meets T Th 3:00 - 4:20 in Baker Hall 235AThere is also a
blackboard page for this class, but itwill be used mainly for reporting grades and for the discussion board and perhaps some online assignment submissions. Please do check the bulletin board here regularly.If you use gmail (especially if you forward andrew mail to gmail) PLEASEadd a filter in gmail [under the 'settings' menu] preventing email from stat.cmu.edu from going in your spam folder. I will occasionally send email from my statistics account, and you need to be able to read and respond to it.Most other materials for the course will be available at
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~brian/763.
Course syllabus
G&H data Data sets and R code from the Gelman & Hill text.
hw00 This is a review assignment that you should complete by the end of the first week of the class. No need to turn anything in, but please do let us know if anything is mystifying or doesn't seem right, as you work through it. The exercises are in the file "R-review.pdf".
week01 hw01 Due Thu 31 Oct, on Blackboard.
week02 hw02 Due Thu 07 Nov, on Blackboard.
week03 hw03 Due Thu 14 Nov, on Blackboard.
week04
week05 hw04 Due TUESDAY 26 Nov, on Blackboard.
See you in class!-BJ