Categorical Data Analysis with Graphics

Michael Friendly
SCS Short Course

This document provides several versions of my short course notes for Categorical Data Analysis with Graphics, offered through the Statistical Consulting Service at York University.

Lecture slides (4up) --- PDF version
- Part 1: Introduction, discrete distributions, randomization-based methods
- Part 2: Two-way and n-way tables
- Part 3: Model-based methods
Supplemental notes for SPSS users:
Lecture notes --- PDF version (old)
Lecture notes --- HTML version (old)
The HTML version contains an earlier version of the the text, tables, and character-based graphs of the printed version, and many, but not all, of the high-resolution graphs.

The main source for these materials is my book, Visualizing Categorical Data

If you want to learn more about categorical data analysis, there are several books and other resources I recommend:

Agresti, A. (1990). Categorical Data Analysis. NY: Wiley. There is also a manual for R and S-plus users to accompany this text.
Christensen, R. (1990). :Log-Linear Models. Springer-Verlag.
Everitt, B. S. (1992). The Analysis of Contingency Tables, London: Chapman & Hall (Monograph 45).
Stokes, M.E., Davis, C.S., and Koch, G.S. (1995). Categorical Data Analysis Using the SAS(R) System. Cary, NC: SAS Institute.
Robert Hanneman's Generalized Linear Models

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