3 Sociology 3155: Quantiative Research Methods and Analysis
Spring 2009
Subject to change: check web schedule if you miss class!!
| Week One: |
Topics/Activities
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Assignment
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| Jan 21 | Introductions | |
| Jan 23Powerpoint 1 | Measures of dispersion: lecture and SPSS examples | Healey, chapter 4 |
| Week Two:Jan 26 Powerpoint 2 |
The normal curve: lecture | Healey, chapter 5. Bring texts to class. |
| Jan 28 Powerpoint 3 | Introduction to Inferential Statistics | |
| Jan 30 | Sampling and Sampling distributions | Healey, chapter six. Homework 1 |
| Week Three: Feb 2 Powerpoint 4 | Confidence Intervals | |
| Feb 4 | Healey, chapter seven | |
| Feb 6 | Homework 2 | |
| Week Four:Feb 9 | Hypothesis testing: the one sample case | |
| Feb 11 Powerpoint 5 | Student's t-distribution | Healey, chapter eight |
| Feb 13 | Hypothesis testing: the two sample case | Homework 3 |
| Week Five: Feb 16 Powerpoint 5b | Healey, chapter nine | |
| Feb18 | Homework 4: | |
| Feb 20Powerpoint 6 | Analysis of Variance | Healey, chapter ten |
| Week Six:Feb 23 | Homework 5: ANOVA | |
| Feb 25Powerpoint 7 | Chi Square | Healey, chapter 11 |
| Feb 27 | Study Guide 1 | Homework 6 |
| Week Seven: Mar 2 | Inferential statistics | Review |
| Mar 4 | Exam One | |
| Mar 6 Powerpoint 8 | Review of exams. Bivariate association: the strength and direction of a relationship | Healey, chapter 12 : Bivariate Association |
| Week Eight: Mar 9 | Homework 7 | |
Mar 11 |
Measures of association for nominal variables | Healey, chapter 13: Bivariate association, Nominal variables |
| Mar 13 | Homework 8 | |
| Week Nine: Mar 23 Powerpoint 10 |
Healey, chapter 14: Bivariate association, ordinal variables (ignore section 14.7) | |
| Mar 25 | Homework 9 | |
| Mar 27 | ||
| Week Ten: Mar 30 Powerpoint 11 |
Bivariate Correlation and Regression: a nice outline | Healey, chapter 15: Bivariate association, interval/ratio variables (ignore section 15.9) |
| April 1 | Homework 10: Work through SPSS demonstrations 15.1-15.2, starting on p. 388, and then do SPSS 15.1-15.3 on p. 391 | |
| April 3 Powerpoint 12 | Chapter 16: Elaborating Bivariate Tables | |
| Week Eleven: April 6 | ||
| April 8 | Homework 11: Work through SPSS demonstrations 16.1 and 16.2 (pp. 419-421) and then to SPSS exercizes 16.1 and 16.2 (p. 421) | |
| April 10 | ||
| Week Twelve: April 13 | Chapter 17: Partial Correlation and Multiple Correlation & Regression | |
| April 15 | Homework 12 Work throught the SPSS demonstrations and then do SPSS 17.1, 17.2, and 17.3, p. 450 |
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| April 17 | Study Guide 2. Optional Review Session. . | |
| Week Thirteen: April 20 | Exam Two | |
| April 22 | Introducing Cumulative Exercise 1 | |
| April 24 | ||
| Week Fourteen: April 27 | Cumulative Exercise 1 due at the beginning of class | |
| April 29 | ||
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| Week Fifteen: May 4 | .Cumulative Exercise 2 due at the beginning of class. | |
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| May 8 | .Cumulative Exercise 3 (see below for due date) |
The final assignment must be turned in by 2 p.m. on Monday, May 11; bring to our regular classroom at 2 or slip under the door to my office (Cina 104C) by then. .