Introduction to Statistics
POL 40950 Introduction to Statistics
Lecture: Monday, 1-2 pm, room L143, Law Building.
Lab: Monday, 2-3 pm, room G5, Daedalus Building.
All information about the course can be found in the syllabus.
Some of the data can be found on the teaching data page, while other data will be downloaded directly from elsewhere on the web.
For R users, the Google R Style guide might be useful.
| Data and measurement | slides | lab | dataverse video on file.choose() in R |
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| Univariate descriptives | slides | lab | ||
| Multivariate descriptives | slides | lab | homework | note on preparing homeworks |
| Simple regression | slides | lab | video on reading slopes note on using logs |
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| Probabilities and probability distributions | slides | lab | Z-table (by Demetris Athienitis) video on standardizing variables |
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| Sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem | slides | lab | homework | video on sampling distributions |
| Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals | slides | lab | T-table (by Demetris Athienitis) | |
| Comparing means and proportions | slides | lab | ||
| Multiple regression: t-tests and F-tests | slides | lab | homework | note on regression tables |
| Multiple regression: categorical independent variables | slides | lab | note on dummy variables | |
| Multiple regression: categorical dependent variables | slides | lab | homework |