COURSE OUTLINE AND IMPORTANT DATES

August 30-September 6th
Sampling and Measurement
Descriptive Statistics: Frequency Distributions, Measures of Central Tendency, and other simple tools
Readings and Homework:
Agresti & Findlay, Chapter 2 Problems 12, 13, 19, 21, 24
Agresti & Findlay, Chapter 3 Problems 4, 6, 16, 18, 62, 66
Unit 5 in Using SPSS, Exercises 1 & 2
Unit 6 in Using SPSS, Exercises 2, 4 & 6
Unit 7, Exercise 3

September 8-20th
Probability Distributions
Readings and Homework:
Agresti & Findlay, Chapter 4 Problems 2, 3, 6, 18, 42

September 8: Exam 1

September 20: Computer Lab Session

September 22-29th
Statistical Inference: Estimation
Readings and Homework:
Agresti & Findlay, Chapter 5 Problems 6, 7, 14, 33, 39, 46, 48

September 29: Computer Lab Session

October 4-6th
Statistical Inference: Significance Tests
Readings and Homework:
Agresti & Findlay, Chapter 6 Problems 8, 14, 19, 28, 30, 31

October 6: Exam 2

October 13-18th
Comparison of Two Groups
Readings and Homework:
Agresti & Findlay, Chapter 7 Problems 1, 8, 11, 16, 30, 40, 53
Unit 11 in Using SPSS, Exercises 1, 4, & 5

October 20-November 1st
Measuring Association between Variables (Categorical & Ordered Categorical)
Readings and Homework:
Agresti & Findlay, Chapter 8 Problems 1, 3, 8, 12
Chapter 8 Problems 25, 28, 29, 52
Unit 8 in Using SPSS, Exercises 1 & 4

November 1: Exam 3

November 10-22nd
Simple Linear Regression Analysis and Multiple Regression
Readings and Homework for Simple Linear Regression Analysis
Agresti & Findlay, Chapter 9 Problems 1, 16, 17, 38, 39
Unit 15 in Using SPSS, Exercise 2, 3 & 4
Regression Analysis, Chapters 3-4

Readings and Homework for Multiple Regression
Agresti & Findlay, Chapters 10 & 11 Problems 7, 9, 10, 15
Unit 16 in Using SPSS, Exercise 2 & 4
Regression Analysis, Chapter 5

November 17: Final Computer Lab Session

November 24
Thanksgiving

November 29-December 1st
Introduction to Logistic Regression
Readings and Homework:
Unit 25 in Using SPSS

November 29: Exam 4