SOC 812: Graduate Statistics

Instructor

ChangHwan Kim (chkim@ku.edu)
Office Hours: Fraser 707
M 2:00 - 3:00 & Th 2:30 - 3:30
(or by appointment)

Syllabus

Syllabus [PDF]
Textbook: John, Fox. 2008. Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication Inc.
- UCLA Stat Portal's Stata, SAS, & SPSS codes
- John Fox's R codes
Blackboard (to check grades and announcements): http://courseware.ku.edu

Weekly Summary

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I. Review of Elementary Statistics

Week 1. Summary Statistics
Supplementary Material: Summation Sign Practice
Week 2&3. Probability, Normal Distribution, and Central Limit Theorem
Supplementary Material: Standard Normal Cumulative Probability Table
Week 3&4. Type 1 and Type 2 Errors
Week 4. Hypothesis Test 1
Week 4. Hypothesis Test 2
Assignment: Homework #1 (Due Feb 16 Thursday); Answer: R-code

II. Correlation and OLS Regression Models

Week 5. Linear Correlation Coefficient
Week 6. Simple Linear Regression; Stata-code; R-code
Week 7. Multiple Regression 1; Stata-code; R-code
Assignment: Homework #2 (Due March 12 Monday)
Week 8. Multiple Regression 2; Stata-code
Exam: Exam #1 (Due March 27 Monday 5:00 PM)

III. Extension of OLS Regression Models

Week 10. Dummy Variables; Stata-code
Week 11. Functional Forms 1; Stata-code
Week 12. Functional Forms 2
Assignment: Homework #3 (Due April 19 Thursday)
Week 13. Regression Diagnosis

Stata

Stata 1. Descriptive Statistics
Stata Data File
2010 and 2011 March Current Population Survey: 15% Sample (MarchCPS1011.dta) (extracted from the IPUMS-CPS)
R Data File
2010 and 2011 March Current Population Survey: 15% Sample (MarchCPS1011.rdata)
Data File in a csv format
2010 and 2011 March Current Population Survey: 15% Sample (MarchCPS1011.csv)

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