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Required Textbooks
Moore, D., and W. I. Notz. Statistics: Concepts and Controversies. 6th ed. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman, 2006. ISBN: 0716786362.
Meier, K., J. Brudney, and J. Bohte. Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006. ISBN: 0534602681.
Recommended Textbooks
Ormsby, et al. Getting to Know ArcGIS™ Desktop. 2nd ed. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2004. ISBN: 158948083X.
Articles, Book Chapters, etc.
Horwitz, L., and L. Ferleger. "Statistics and logic." In Statistics for Social Change. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1980. ISBN: 092005711X.
Hodge, G. "The use and mis-use of measurement scales in city planning." Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1963).
Lehman, Ann, and John Sall. Excerpts from "Why is it Called Regression?" JMPer Cable no. 6 (Summer 1998), SAS Institute, Inc. (PDF - 1.2 MB)
Marsh, C. "Opinion polls-social science or political maneuver?" In Demystifying Social Statistics. Edited by J. Irvine, I. Miles, and J. Evans. London, UK: Pluto Press, 1979. ISBN: 0861040686.
Monmonier, Mark. "Data maps: making nonsense of the census." Chapter 9 in How to Lie with Maps. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991. ISBN: 0226534154.
Orfield, Myron. "Affordable housing and the tax base." Chapter 4 in Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1998. ISBN: 0815766394.
O'Sullivan, David, and David Unwin. Geographic Information Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 0471211761.
Savas, E. "The Political Properties of Crystalline H2O: Planning for Snow Emergencies in New York." Management Science 20, no. 2 (1973).
Scanlan, J. "The Perils of Provocative Statistics." Public Interest 120 (1991): 3-14.
Tufte, E. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1983, chapter 2, pp. 53-78. ISBN: 096139210X.
Readings by Session
Course readings.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| L1 |
Introduction to Course |
|
| L2 |
What is an Argument? |
Horwitz and Ferleger.
Mission: Critical |
| L3 |
Measurement |
Hodge.
Moore and Notz. Chapters 8 and 16.
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 2. |
| R1 |
Recitation 1 |
|
| L4 |
Research Design |
Hilton, Sterling C., and Howard B. Christensen. "Evaluating the Impact of Multimedia Lectures on Student Learning and Attitudes." ICOTS6, 2002.
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 3.
Moore and Notz. Chapters 5, 6, and 7. |
| L5 |
Frequency Distributions, Histograms, Stemplots, Boxplots, Measures of Dispersion |
Meier and Bohte. Chapters 4, 5 and 6.
Moore and Notz. Chapters 10, 11 and 12. |
| R2 |
Lab 1 |
|
| L6 |
Introduction to Probability |
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 7.
Moore and Notz. Chapters 17 and 18. |
| L7 |
The Normal and Binomial Distributions |
Meier and Bohte. Chapters 8 and 9.
Moore and Notz. Chapter 13.
Scanlan. |
| R3 |
Recitation 3 |
|
| L8 |
Sampling |
Moore and Notz. Chapters 1-4.
Census 2000 SF3 Documentation. (PDF - 5.9 MB)
Census 2000 PUMS Documentation. (PDF - 4.6 MB) |
| L9 |
Basics of Confidence Intervals and Tests of Significance |
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 11.
Moore and Notz. Chapter 21, pp. 436-440. |
| R4 |
Recitation 4 |
|
| L10 |
Recap: CIs and Inference for Means |
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 11.
Moore and Notz. Chapter 21, pp. 436-440. |
| L11 |
CIs and Inference for Proportions and Hypothesis Testing |
Meier and Bohte. Chapters 12-13.
Moore and Notz. Chapters 21-22, pp. 425-436. |
| R5 |
Recitation 5 |
|
| L12 |
Testing the Difference Between Two Groups |
Moore and Notz. Chapter 23.
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 14, pp. 217-227. |
| L13 |
Testing the Difference Between Two Groups |
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 14, pp. 227-228. |
| L14 |
Review for Mid-term |
|
| L15 |
Mid-term Exam |
|
| L16 |
Analyzing Categorical Data |
Meier and Bohte. Chapters 15-16, pp. 259-269.
Moore and Notz. Chapter 24. |
| L17 |
Scatterplots and Correlation |
Moore and Notz. Chapter 14. |
| R6 |
Lab 2 |
|
| L18 |
Introduction to Regression Analysis |
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 18.
Moore, David S. The Basic Practice of Statistics. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman, 1995, chapter 5. ISBN: 0716726289. |
| R7 |
Recitation 7 |
|
| L19 |
Regression (cont.) |
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 19.
Moore, David S. The Basic Practice of Statistics. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman, 1995, chapter 5. ISBN: 0716726289. |
| L20 |
Multiple Regression |
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 21, pp. 385-401. |
|
Paper Preparation |
|
| R8 |
Lab 3 |
|
| L21 |
Multiple Regression (cont.) |
Meier and Bohte. Chapter 23. |
| L22 |
Spatial Data Analysis |
Monmonier. Chapter 9.
O'Sullivan and Unwin. |
| R9 |
Lab 4 |
|
| L23 |
The Census |
|
| L24 |
Quiz |
|
| R10 |
Recitation 10 |
|
| L25 |
Research Design and Regression Analysis |
|
| L26 |
Wrap-up |
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