36-463/36-663: Multilevel/Hierarchical Models
Fall 2012

Instructor:				Teaching Assistants:
Brian Junker, Statistics		Xiaolin Yang			Spencer Koerner
132E Baker Hall				FMS 320				FMS 320
268-8874				268-1889			268-1889
brian@stat.cmu.edu			xiaoliny@andrew.cmu.edu		fsk@andrew.cmu.edu

Office Hours (132E Baker):		Office Hours (FMS 320):		Office Hours (FMS 320):

Immed. after class   			M,W 3:00-4:00pm 		W 2:00-3:00pm

and by appointment			and by appointment		and by appointment



This course meets T Th 10:30 - 11:50 in WEH 4632.

There is also a blackboard page for this class, but it
will be used mainly for 

* turning in assignments
* discussion board
* reporting grades

Please do check the bulletin board here regularly.

If you use gmail (especially if you forward andrew mail to gmail) PLEASE
add 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/463.

PREREQUISITES and TEXTBOOKS, (and a few other books)

COMPUTING, some good basic R references, and some other online resources

Course syllabus

WEEKLY HANDOUTS, ASSIGNMENTS, ETC. HERE:

  hw00 PRE-CLASS ASSIGNMENT, DUE TUES AUG 28 BEFORE CLASS.
       Please read & do "pre-class-email.txt" in this directory.

  week01     hw01 Due 04 September

  week02     hw02 Due 11 September

  week03     hw03 Due THU 20 September

  week04     hw04 Due THU 27 September

  week05

  week06     hw05 Due TUE 09 October

  week07     takehome portion of midterm exam.
             Due Tue Oct 16 at Midnight, on Blackboard.

  week08

  week09

  week10     hw06 Due TUE 06 November

  week11     hw07 Due TUE 13 November

  week12     hw08 Due WED 21 November

  week13     No HW over Thanksgiving break.

  week14     Here is the takehome portion of final exam.
             Due Tues Dec 4 at Midnight, on Blackboard.

  week15

  -BJ