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SPRING Course SCHEDULE 2004 DATA ANALYSIS, SOC
301 |
| Date | Topic | Lecture Notes | Homework |
| 1/8 | Syllabus
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| 1/13 | Research Questions, Hypotheses, Variables,
Causality
Level of Measurement, Indicators and Scales |
Research Design Review
Data Collection Methods Review
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1/14 last day to drop/add |
| 1/15 |
Data Entry and Data Definition | ||
| 1/20 |
Univariate Statistics: Frequency Tables, Percentages, Mode, Median, Mean Graphing
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Take Home Exercise: Frequency Tables and Univariate Statistics | |
| 1/22 |
Go Over Take Home Exercise Univariate Statistics: Range, Variance, Standard Deviation
Graphing |
Take Home Exercise 1 Answers | Assignment 1 |
| 1/27 |
Go Over Assignment 1 Calculating Mean + Standard Deviation from a Frequency Table
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Calculating a Mean from a Frequency Distribution Calculating a Standard Deviation from a Frequency Distribution
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Take Home Exercise: Computing Means and Standard Deviations from Frequency Tables |
| 1/29 | Go Over
Take Home Exercise
Outliers |
Characteristics of the Normal Distribution
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Assignment 2 |
| 2/3 | Go Over Assignment 2 Review for Exam 1 |
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| 2/5 |
Exam 1
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| 2/10
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Go Over Exam 1
Introduction to Bivariate Analysis
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Why Univariate Statistics Are Important Introduction to Inferential Statistics
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| 2/12 |
Introduction to Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Error |
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| 2/17 |
Crosstabs (by Hand)
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Take Home Example: Crosstabs1 (Distributed in class) | |
| 2/19 | Go Over Take Home Example1 on Crosstabs Crosstabs (on the computer)
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Take Home Example: Crosstabs2 (Distributed in class) |
| 2/24 | Go Over Take Home Example2 on Crosstabs One Group Mean Test
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Take Home Example:
1 Group Mean Test 2/25 last day to withdraw with a W | |
| 2/26 |
Go Over Take Home Example on One Group Mean Test Two Group Mean Test
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Two Group Means Test | Take Home Example: 2 Group Means Test |
| 3/2 | Go Over Take Home Example on
2 Group Mean Test
Matched Group Mean Test
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Take Home Example: Matched Group Means Test | |
| 3/4 NO CLASS |
No Class:
Professor at Conference (North Carolina Sociological Society)
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| 3/9 and 3/11 SPRING BREAK |
NO CLASS |
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| 3/16 |
Go Over Take Home Example on Matched Group Mean Test Multiple Group Mean Test (ANOVA) |
ANOVA (Multiple group means test) | Take Home Example:
Multiple Group Means Test |
| 3/18 |
Go Over Take Home Example on
Multiple Group Mean Test
Correlations |
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| 3/23 |
Go Over Assignment
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Review for Exam 2 |
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| 3/25 | Exam 2 |
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| 3/30 |
Go Over Exam 2
Introduction to Multivariate Statistics
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Introduction to Multivariate Statistics
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| 4/1
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Crosstabs with Control Variable (Elaboration) |
Elaboration (Crosstabs with a Control Variable) | Take Home Example
on Elaboration |
| 4/6 | Go Over Take Home Example on
Elaboration
ANCOVA |
ANCOVA (Means test with a
control variable)
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Take Home Example on ANCOVA |
| 4/8 EASTER BREAK
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NO CLASS |
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| 4/13 | Go Over Take Home Example on
ANCOVA
Partial Correlations |
Partial Correlation
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Take Home Example on Partial Correlation |
| 4/15 | Go Over Take Home Example on
Partial Correlation
Multiple Regression |
Take Home Example on Regression | |
| 4/20 | Go Over Take Home Example on
Regression
Multiple Regression
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Regression | Assignment 4 |
| 4/22 LAST CLASS
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Go Over Assignment
4 |
Assignment
4 Answers
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| Wednesday 4/28 8-11am
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Exam 3
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