Instructor	Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology 135 Cannon Street, Suite 305 E  Medical University of South Carolina
Class Schedule	Tuesday, Thursday 1.30 PM - 3.00 PM Cannon Place, Room # 301 or 304 (DBE Conference Room)
Office Hours	Thursdays  3.00 PM - 4.00 PM, or by appointment
Required Text	Myles Hollander and Doug Wolfe: Nonparametric Statistical Methods, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 1999
General Class Outline and Reading Blocks	Introduction (Chapter 1) Dichotomous Data (Chapter 2)
Grading	Homework sets and class participation (30% total) 2 midterm exam (20%): Inclass  Final Exam (30%)

Date	Lecture Title
08/25/2009	Introduction (Lecture1)
08/27/2009	Basics (Lecture 2)
09/01/2009	Order Statistics, PIT, etc (Lecture 3)
09/03/2009	Binomial Tests (Lecture 4)
09/08/2009	More on Binomial Tests (Lecture 5)  Rcode
09/10/2009	Wilcoxon Signed Rank (SR) Test (Lecture 6)
09/15/2009	More on Wilcoxon SR Test (Lecture 7) Rcode
09/17/2009	Examples and other discussions (Lecture 8)
09/22/2009	Sign Test (Lecture 9) Rcode
09/29/2009	Sign Test Computations (Lecture 10)                              Rosner Paper                              Rosner SR clustered test                              SAS_signtest                              More R
10/01/2009	Two-sample problem (Lecture 11)
10/06/2009	Rank sum (RS) tests (Lecture 12),                               Rosner RS clustered test paper                               Datta/Satten clustered test paper                               Rcode_RS                               SAS_RS                               SAS_Rosner_clustered_RS                               SAS_Rosner_clustered_RS_confounded
10/08/2009	Ansari Bradley (AB) tests (Lecture 13)                               SAS_AB                               R codes can be found here
10/13/2009	Jackknife/Miller's Test/KS test (Lecture 14)                               Jackknife Program                               SAS KS Example                               KS R code
10/20/2009	Kruskal-Wallis (KW) Test
10/22/2009	KW and Jonckheere-Terpstra (JT) Tests                               KW-JT SAS code; R code
10/27/2009	Friedman and Page tests                               Friedman (SAS and R)                               Page (SAS macro)
10/29/2009	Kendall's Tau                               R code, boots.tau                               SAS
11/03/2009	More on Bootstrap                               More R programs                               Reading assignment 1                               Reading assignment 2
11/19/2009	Spearman's Rank and U-statistics (Lecture)                               Notes on smoothing                               Spearman's Rho