THE
Department
of Sociology
Sociology
300a UW002: Advanced Statistics (Fall 2002)
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Instructor: Martin Cooke Office: SSC 2250 Phone: 661-2111
x82750 E-mail: mjcooke@uwo.ca |
Class times and Locations (UW002) Monday Wednesday Office Hours: Mon. &
Wed. |
This course builds upon the topics covered in Sociology 231, and
extends them to introduce techniques such as ANOVA, ANCOVA, multiple regression
and related models. The emphasis of the
course will be on practical application of statistical techniques as well as
developing an understanding the conceptual links between them. The assignments are intended to provide practice
in using statistical computing packages, emphasizing both conceptual
understanding and the interpretation of results.
Prerequisite: Sociology 231 is the prerequisite for this course,
and according to University policy, "(u)nless you have either the requisites
for this course or written special permission from your Dean to enroll in it,
you will be removed from this course and it will be deleted from your record.
This decision may not be appealed. You will receive no adjustment to your fees
in the event that you are dropped from a course for failing to have the
necessary prerequisites." This and other academic policies are available
on the University website at: http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/handbook/.
Texts: The textbook for this course is:
Agresti, Alan and
B. Finlay, 1997. Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, 3rd
edition.
The text will be available in the University bookstore. It may be possible to find used copies of the
text, but students must ensure that the book they have is the third edition. While students are required to follow the
readings in the text, it is often helpful to consult other statistics texts,
which may present the same material in a somewhat different way.
Evaluation: There will be two exams, a midterm and a
final exam, each worth 30% of the final mark.
There will also be four assignments, each worth 10%.
Assignments: The four
assignments will be aimed at providing practical experience using computers to
perform statistical analysis. The
emphasis will be on demonstrating an understanding of the ideas behind the
analysis. Students are free to use the
SAS or SPSS packages available on the SSC network. However, examples in class will use
SPSS.
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Date |
Topic |
Reading
(Agresti and Finlay) and Notes |
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Sept 9 & Sept 11 |
Review: frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions |
Chapters 1- 4 |
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Sept 16 (Mon) |
Review: Point and interval estimation, Tests of significance |
Chapters 5 & 6 |
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Sept 18 (Wed) |
Computer Lab: (re-) Introduction to Statistical Computing Packages |
Computer
Lab |
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Sept 23 & Sept
25 |
Large and small sample tests for differences between means |
Chapter 7 |
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Sept 30 (Mon) |
One-Way Analysis of Variance |
Chapter 12.1, 12.2 |
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Oct 2 (Wed) |
Bivariate analysis: chi-square test of independence |
Chapter 8 |
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Oct 7 & 9 |
Chi-Square test (cont’d), Review of Simple Regression and Correlation |
Chapter 8 & 9 Assignment
1 Due Oct 7 |
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Oct
14 (Mon) |
No
class (Thanksgiving) |
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Oct 16 (Wed) |
Simple Regression and Correlation |
Chapter 9 |
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Oct
21 (Mon) |
Mid-Term
Test |
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Oct 23 (Wed) |
Causality, Multiple regression and Correlation |
Chapter 10 & 11 Assignment
2 Due Oct 23 |
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Oct 28 & 30 |
Multiple Regression and Correlation |
Chapter 11 |
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Nov 4 & 6 |
Multiple Regression and Correlation |
Chapter 11 |
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Nov 11 & 13 |
ANOVA and ANCOVA |
Chapters 12 & 13 Assignment
3 Due Nov 13 |
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Nov 18 & 20 |
Model building & Analysis of Assumptions |
Chapter 14 |
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Nov 25 & 27 |
Path analysis |
Chapter 16 |
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Dec 2 & Dec 4 |
Review |
Assignment
4 due Dec 4 |