Tue 3 Feb — Slides (1.4 MB)
RMKB: Survey Research
(Be sure to click through all the subsections that appear when you click through the sections of Survey Research on the left-hand navigation.)
Thu 5 Feb — Slides (1.5 MB)
Bernard, Ch. 8 (in reader)
Tue 17 Feb — Slides (6.3 MB)
Bernard, Ch. 4 (in reader); Freedman, Pisani, and Purves, Ch. 1
Thu 19 Feb — Slides (3.2 MB)
RMKB: Design; Freedman, Pisani, and Purves, Ch. 2
Tue 24 Feb — Slides (2.7 MB) | Data (454.9 KB)
Freedman et al. Chapters 13 (pp. 221-233), 14 (pp. 237-246) and 19 (pp. 333-353)
Thu 26 Feb — Slides (4.3 MB)
Freedman et al. Chapter 20; Bernard Chapter 5, "Sampling" (in reader)
Tue 3 Mar — Notes (38.8 KB)
RMKB: Data Preparation; ICPSR Guide to Social Science Data Preparation: Chapter 3 (pp. 7-14)
Thu 5 Mar
In-class demonstration
Tue 10 Mar — Slides (842 KB)
No reading, but browse the following sites and become familiar with the offerings:
Thu 12 Mar — Slides (1 MB)
Freedman et al. Chapters 3 and 4
Tue 17 Mar — Slides (1 MB)
Freedman et al. Chapters 5, 6 and 7
Thu 19 Mar — Lab (68.5 KB)
Lab 3 distributed in class
Tue 31 Mar — Slides (2 MB)
Freedman et al. Chapters 8 and 9
Thu 2 Apr — Slides (1.7 MB)
Freedman et al. Chapters 17, 18 and 26 (through page 488)
Tue 7 Apr — Slides (2.1 MB)
Freedman et al. Chapter 26 (488-500), Chapter 29
RMKB: The T-Test
Thu 9 Apr — Slides (1.5 MB)
Freedman et al. Chapter 28
Tue 14 Apr — Slides (1.1 MB)
[Reading to be distributed in class in week 12]
Thu 16 Apr — Lab (71.4 KB)
Lab 4: Hypothesis Testing with STATA or R
Tue 21 Apr — Slides (1.3 MB)
Freedman et al. Chapters 10, 11 and 12
Thu 23 Apr — Slides (860.5 KB)
Myers and Well chapter on Regression (in reader)
Tue 28 Apr — Slides (860.5 KB)
Regression examples and discussion
Thu 30 Apr
Fiore, A.T., Taylor, L.S., Mendelsohn, G.A., and M. Hearst. Assessing Attractiveness in Online Dating Profiles. In Proc. ACM CHI 2008.