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: Our final (cummulative) exam is on
Friday, May 11 between 230 pm and 430 pm.

• Syllabus

StatCrunch Assignments

• Computer assignment 1
  
• take this survey

• Final Exam Practice (pdf)
  (now with answers)
• Exam 3 Practice (pdf)
  (now with answers - PDF)
• Exam 2 Practice (pdf)
  (now with answers)
• Exam 1 Practice (pdf)
  
• Quiz (z-Scores) (pdf)
  Quiz (Conf. Int) (pdf)

Notes and Resources

• Dyknow
• eBook: Stats Methods by Agresti
• StatCrunch
  • videos
  •  manual and more info
• GSS 2008 Data Set

Lectures

• 22: Practice (pdf) for Exam 3 (pdf) (with answers - PDF
• 21: More proportions (pdf)
• 20: Proprtions (pdf)
• 19: More tests (pdf)
• 18: Tests review (pdf)
• 17: Hyp test (pdf)
• 16: Small sample est.(pdf)
• Exam 2 Practice (pdf)
• 14: Estimation (pdf)
• 13: CLT (pdf)
• 12: z-scores  (pdf)
• 11: Probability theory (pdf)
• 10: Linear Regression (pdf)
• 09: Chi-Square (pdf)
• 08: Contingency tables (pdf)
• 07: Exam 1 review
• 06: Box Plot (pdf)
• 05: Variance, Std. Dev (pdf)
• 04: Mean etc for distributions (pdf)
• 03: Mean, Median, Mode (pdf)
• 02: Distribution, cont, discrete (pdf)
• 01: Intro (pdf)

Assignments

• HW22: Practice Exam 3 (pdf) with answers - PDF
• HW21: Proportion worksheet
• HW19: More Stats Tests
• HW17: Complete these questions on Testing about a Mean; also redo this confidence interval worksheet, paying attention to the sample size
• Exam 2 Practice (pdf)
• HW14: Complete this worksheet
• HW12: Answer these questions and the remaining ones in this worksheet.
• HW11: Answer these questions and questions 1, 2, 3 (b,c) of this worksheet.
  Page 99: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5(*)
• HW10: Complete these questions and
  finish this computer assignment and
  also work out these quiz-like questions
• HW9: Cont Tables 1 and Cont. Tables 2
• HW7: Exam 1 review sheet
• HW6: Worksheet 4 (the box plot questions)
• HW5: Worksheet 3 and
  Worksheet 4 (only the quartiles and median)
  Page 64: 3.19, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 3.26, 3.32, 3.34(b), 3.35, 3.38, 3.41, 3.56 (think about it only), 3.73 
• HW4: Worksheet 2 (parts 3 and 4)
  Panel 9 of lecture notes - find mode and median
  Page 63: 3.14, 3.15
  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 normal or skewed?
  For HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV the mean is larger than the median. Explain.
• HW3: Page 62: 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.19 (mean, median, mode only)
  Worksheet 1
  Worksheet 2 (all except 3 and 4)
• 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
• HW1: Page 25: 2.1, 2.2, 2.7, 2.14, 2.16, 2.27
  Install Dyknow and setup StatCrunch