STATISTICS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, Instructor Goldsmith

MEET IN YOUR GROUPS!

Important: When you do crosstabs, select COLUMN percent, NOT ROW percent.

Notes and Extra credit on regression

Final exam

Homework assignment for chapter 9.

Our goal as a class is for everyone to get through this course. Your groups are learning communities. They are for everyone's benefit.

Here are directions for rewriting the extra credit assignment.

Answers to homework 1 Answers to homework 7
Answers to homework 2 Answers to homework 8
Answers to homework chapter 3 Answers to homework 9
Answers to homework 4 Answers to homework 10
Answers to homework 5 Answers to homework 11
Answers to homework 6 Answers to homework 12

Class activity. Determine the mean, median, and mode, by year for the "number of Olympians reporting their hometown in a state". Which measure of central tendency is most appropriate for this variable? Why. Put the data from one of the years into SPSS. Calculate the measures of central tendency and create a chart or graph to see its distribution. Explain what the graph says.

Practice test (for November 2).

Questionnaire and assignment for Tuesday the 19th. Turn in your data and write up on Thursday the 21st.

Useful links

Syllabus, which includes the test dates

General Social Survey

SPSS