Thurs 23 Aug

(No reading.)

Tue 28 Aug

Bernard, Chapters 1 and 2PDF

Thu 30 Aug

• Creswell, Chapters 1 and 6 PDF
• Brown and Muchira. 2004. "Investigating the relationship between internet privacy concerns and online purchase behavior." Journal of Electronic Commerce Research. [*Focus on first 6 pages*].  PDF
• Mark, Noah.  1998. "Birds of a Feather Sing Together" Social Forces 77:2. [*Focus on first 16 pages, up until the Results*] PDF

NOTE: The main goal for these readings is to critically examine the research problems and questions in each paper, and how the method fits the stated questions/problem.

Tue 4 Sep

Bernard, Ch. 7
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 6 Sep

Bernard, Ch. 8

Tue 11 Sep

• Jon Krosnick, "Question and Questinnaire Design" PDF
• Saris, W., Revilla, M., Krosnick, J. A., & Shaeffer, E. (2010). Comparing questions with agree/disagree response options to questions with item-specific response options. Survey Research Methods, 4, 61-79. PDF

Thu 13 Sep

Lab 1 in class

Tue 18 Sep

• Bernard, Ch. 4
• Freedman, Pisani, and Purves, Ch. 1

Thu 20 Sep

• RMKB: Design (Read through ALL sections under design, including validity, type of designs, Quasi-Experimental Design, etc)
• Freedman, Pisani, and Purves, Ch. 2
• Bad Copy: In The Wake of High-Profile Controversies, Psychologists are Facing up to Problems with Replication. PDF

Tue 25 Sep

Chapters on Probability: Freedman et al. Chapters 13-18 (pp. 221-329). Please note that most of this text is made up of excercises and examples for each chapter.

Thu 27 Sep

Freedman et al. Chapters 19-21; Bernard Chapter 5, "Sampling"

Tue 02 Oct — Notes (258.6 KB)

ICPSR Guide to Social Science Data Preparation: Chapter 3 (carefully read pp. 13-18)

Thu 04 Oct

No Class

Thu 09 Oct — Notes (38.5 KB)

Freedman et al. Chapters 3 and 4

Tue 11 Oct

Freedman et al. Chapters 5, 6 and 7

Thu 16 Oct

Intermediate and Advanced STATA recodes and error-checking

Tue 18 Oct

Lab 2 in class: Working with Numeric Data in STATA

Tue 23 Oct

Freedman et al. Chapters 8 and 9

Thu 25 Oct

(Review Freedman et al. Chapters 17, 18) and Read Freedman et al. Chapter 26 (through page 488)

Tue 30 Oct

Bernard, Chapter 14 and 15 "Univariate Analysis" (pp. 526-535), Bivariate Analysis (pp. 546-549)
Freedman et al. Chapter 26 (488-500), Chapter 29
RMKB: The T-Test

Thu 1 Nov

Bernard Ch 14 (pp. 535-537)
Freedman et al. Chapter 28

Tue 6 Nov

No New Reading; In-Class program examples and discussion.

Thu 8 Nov

Lab 3 in class: Hypothesis Testing with Numeric Data using STATA

Tue 13 Nov

Bernard, Chapter 15 (pp. 549-557).

Tue 15 Nov

Freedman et al. Chapters 10, 11 and 12

Nov 20-- No Class

Nov 22-- Thanksgiving Holiday

Tue 27 Nov

• Multiple Regression ChapterPDF

Thu 29 Nov