SOC 812: Graduate Statistics

Instructor

ChangHwan Kim (chkim@ku.edu)
Office Hours: Fraser 748
W 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM (or by appointment)

Syllabus

Syllabus [PDF]
Agresti, Alan and Barbara Finlay. 2017. Statistical Methods for the Social Science, 5th Edition. Prentice Hall.
- UCLA Stat Portal's Textbook Stata code
Alan C. Acock. 2018. A Gentle Introduction to Stata, 6th Edition. Stata Corp.
Blackboard (to check grades and announcements): http://courseware.ku.edu

Lecture Summary

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I. Review of Elementary Statistics

1. Some Important Concepts (Chapters 1 and 2)
2. Summary Statistics (Chapter 3)
3. Probability, Normal Distribution, and Central Limit Theorem (Chapters 4 & 5): Stata-code
- Supplementary Material: Standard Normal Cumulative Probability Table
- Supplementary Material: Sampling Distribution
4. Student t-distribution (t-distribution Table)
- Type 1 and Type 2 Errors
- Hypothesis Test 1: One Sample Tests (Chapter 6); Stata-code
5. Hypothesis Test 2: Two Sample Tests (Chapter 7)

II. Correlation and OLS Regression Models

6. Correlation Coefficient (Chapter 9)
7. Simple Linear Regression (Chapter 9); Stata-code; R-code
8. Multiple Regression 1; Stata-code
9. Multiple Regression 2; Stata-code

III. Extension of OLS Regression Models

How to Use Stata

Assignments

TBA

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