Statistical Reasoning and Quantitative Methods

1

Introduction

Read: Handbook, ch. 1.

Setup

Data: NHIS 2009.

Sec. 1–4.

First aid kit:
course agenda, helper do-file

2

Datasets

Read: Stata tutorials.

Exploration

Data: NHIS 2009.

Sec. 5–6.

3

Variables

Read: Stata tutorials.

Recoding

Data: WVS 2000.

Sec. 7–8.

4

Distributions

Read: Handbook, ch. 2.

Normality

Data: NHIS 2009.

Sec. 9.

5

Estimation

Read: Handbook, ch. 5.

Confidence intervals

Data: Baumgartner et al. 2010.

Sec. 13–14.

Assignment No. 1
do-file, example, template

6

Association (1)

Read: Handbook, ch. 7.

Crosstabulations

Data: EBM 2009.

Sec. 10.

7

Association (2)

Read: Handbook, ch. 6.

Comparisons

Data: ESS 2008.

id.

8

Association (3)

Read: Handbook, ch. 3.

Scatterplots

Data: QOG 2011.

Sec. 11.

9

Regression (1)

Read: Handbook, ch. 4.

Prediction

Data: QOG 2011.

Sec. 13–15.

10

Regression (2)

Read: Handbook, ch. 8–10.

Modelling

Data: GSS 2010.

Sec. 11.

11

Regression (3) (coming soon)

Read: Handbook, ch. 11.

Diagnostics

Data: QOG 2011.

id.

12

Wrap-up

Read: Handbook, ch. 12–13.

Reporting (coming soon)

Data: QOG 2011.

Sec. 16.