GOG 502/PLN 504

Statistical Methods

Fall, 2011

Professor: Youqin Huang

CLASS LOCATION:	AS 013
CLASS HOURS:	TTH 1:15-2:35 pm
OFFICE HOURS:	TTH 3:00-4:00 pm (AS 215) and by appointment
EMAIL:	yhuang@albany.edu
WEB PAGE:	http://www.albany.edu/~yhuang/GOG502_Statistics.html

Syllabus

Assignments:

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Assignment 3

Assignment 4

Assignment 5

Here are assignments in previous semesters that used this dataset (text file, excel file) with data description. This is for your reference, just in case you are not sure how to conduct appropriate analysis using your dataset.

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Assignment 3

Assignment 4

Assignment 5

Notes:

Introduction

Introduction to Excel and SPSS

Research Design

Sampling and Measurement

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive Statistics 2

Probability Distribution

Probability Distribution 2

Point and Interval Estimation

Hypothesis Test: One-sample

Hypothesis Test: Two-sample

Hypothesis Test: Comparing Multiple Groups (ANOVA)

Cross tabulation and Chi-square Test

Scatterplot and Linear Association

Linear Regression

Multivariate Linear Regression

Regression Assumptions and Issues

Logistic Regression

Spatial Analysis

Choice of Statistical Methods

Midterm Review

Useful links:

Online Data Archive and Collections

UAlbany CSDA, links to various data archive websites

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census data

North American Social Science Data Archives

Institute for Social Research at University of Michigan

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series at University of Minnesota

National Survey of Families and Households

Pew Research Center

How to Download Census 2000 Summary Files 3

Software related links:

Step-by-step instructions on using Excel by University of Kansas ACS

Excel Introduction

Excel Charting

Excel Function and Data Analysis Tool

Excel Data Management

SPSS website

SPSS Online Learning Resources by UCLA Academic Technology Services

E-academy

MS Office 2003-2007 Converter

UAlbany ITS classes on Excel and SPSS

SAS related links:

A SAS learning center by UCLA Academic Technology Services: class notes, learning modules, sample programs, SAS FAQs, web books on statistics using SAS…

SAS online manual: everything you need to know about SAS, search specific SAS commands...

SAS homepage: SAS products, news, join the SAS user mailing list…

Take a free SAS course by ITS: Introduction to SAS (Sept. 22, 9:30am)…

Various courses on Excel by ITS …

Sample Empirical Research Papers:

The changing intrametropolitan location of high-poverty neighbourhoods in the US, 1990-2000

Authors: Cooke, Thomas; Marchant, Sarah

Source: Urban Studies, Volume 43, Number 11, October 2006, pp. 1971-1989(19)

Housing and ethnicity in the post-soviet city: Ust'-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan

Authors: Gentile, Michael; Tammaru, Tiit

Source: Urban Studies, Volume 43, Number 10, September 2006, pp. 1757-1778(22)

A Room of One’s Own: Housing Consumption and Residential Crowding in Transitional China