Math 1203: Statistics for Social Science
Course Description: Applications of statistics in the social sciences. Analysis and interpretation of statistical models. Sampling techniques, common flaws and errors in sampling and in using statistics. Descriptive statistics, levels of measurement, measures of central tendency and dispersion. Contingency tables and measures of association for categorical variables. Correlation and linear regression. Probability and frequency distributions. Parametric and non-parametric inferential statistics. Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. 3 credits.
Who takes this course: This course is for students majoring in sociology, political science, social work, social and behavioral sciences, criminal justice, diplomacy, or anthropology. However, it is open to anyone interested in an introductory statistics course. This course satisfies part C of the “core curriculum” of the School of Arts and Sciences.
Note: You will need the Dyknow software installed on our laptop.
Final exam: this class covers two exam slots, so you have two choices for the final exam: either Dec 14, Period 4 or Dec 13, Period 1!
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StatCrunch Assignments
- Computer Assignment 2 [ pdf ] - with data
- Computer Assignment 1 [ pdf ]
- Final exam Pratice
- Exam 3 Practice (now with answers)
- Exam 2 Practice (now with answers)
- Exam 1 Practice
Notes and Resources
Lectures
- 22: Final review [ dyn | pdf ]
- 20: Stat Tests overview (dyn | pdf)
- 19: Diff. Means test [ dyn | pdf ]
- 18: Hyp testing [ dyn | pdf ]
- 17: Small Sample t-distr [ dyn | pdf ]
- 16: Confidence Intervals [ dyn | pdf ]
- 15: CLT, estimation [ dyn | pdf ]
- 14: z-Scores [ dyn | pdf ]
- 13: Standard Normal Dist [ dyn | pdf ]
- 12: Regression and Probability [ dyn | pdf ]
- 11. Statcrunch Mobile [ doc | pdf ]
- 10.Correlation [ dyn | pdf ]
- 09: Chi-Square test [ dyn | pdf ]
- 08: Contingency tables [ dyn | pdf ]
- 07: Empirical Rule [ dyn | pdf ]
- 06: Box plot [ dyn | pdf ]
- 05: Variance [ dyn | pdf ]
- 04: Mean, median, mode [ dyn | pdf ]
- 03: Charts, histograms [ dyn | pdf ]
- 02: Variables [ dyn | pdf ]
- 01: Intro [ dyn | pdf ]
Assignments
- HW22: Final exam Pratice
- HW20: check out this practice exam (now with answers)
- HW19: Work through this worksheet, all of it.
- HW 18: Answer these questions. Make sure to use the correct distribution (Normal or T)
- HW 17: Exam 2 Practice (now with answers)
- HW 16: Complete this worksheet
- HW13+14: Finish this worksheet and this worksheet
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HW12: Complete these
questions and
finish this worksheet and
also work out these quiz-like questions - HW11: See Statcrunch Mobile [ doc | pdf ]
- HW8: complete this worksheet andt this one.
- HW7: work out this practice exam
- HW6: complete this worksheet and this one. Also Page 64: 3.34(b), 3.35, 3.38, 3.41, 3.56 (think about it only), 3.73
- HW5: complete this worksheet. Also Page 64: 3.19, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 3.26, 3.32
- HW4: Page
62: 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.14, 3.15, 3.19 (mean, median, mode
only) worksheet
1 and worksheet 2
Which measure of central tendency is less susceptible to extreme outliers, the median or the mean? Explain. Use StatCrunch to find the mean, median, and mode for AGE and HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV Use StatCrunch to create a histogram for AGE and HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV. Are they heterogeneous or homogeneous? - HW2:
Page 61: 3.1 (a and c), 3.4 (a), 3.11 (a) -use our GSS
survey for this
Use our GSS survey data and StatCrunch to determine (a) how many US adults, in percent, in 2008 were white, approximately, and (b) how many US adults in 2008 took either one or two years of Algebra in HS
Page 25: 2.1, 2.2, 2.7, 2.14, 2.16, 2.27
- HW1: Install Dyknow and setup StatCrunch