PSC 101, Spring 2005: Course links

Housekeeping items:

Syllabus here        

Data analysis I, due February 15th

The main text (Johnson and Reynolds) has a website with useful links here

There is a nice Stata help page at UCLA (poke around; some pages are more appropriate than others).

There are many statistics pages out there; one especially pithy and useful one is the BMJ statistics notes page.
The substantive examples tend to be medical, which follows from the journal title.
Data and other links:
2/1 data and supplementary materials: George Will on state SAT scores.
The College Board position on state SAT scores.
SAT scores by state, in Stata format.

2/3 data:
 Data for recoding.
Data for univariate data analysis.
2/8 data and links:
 Johnson-Reynolds dataset for data analysis I.
Codebook for above dataset.
2/10 misc. links
 Would you like it if a computer program graded your essays?
Why not?
AYP and test score reliability
2/15 misc. links PSC 101 midterm from Spring 2002
Face validity--the 2004 PGA all-around rankings
Voter turnout trends in the U.S.
2/17 misc. links

2/22 misc. links
 Gorilla experiment
2/24 misc. links
 Cook and Ludwig Brady law abstract, JAMA
Maharishi Technology abstract, JCR
3/24 Stata code, etc.
 Stata code for our sampling experiment:

*this code creates 25 observations of a normally distributed
*variable named foo, with a mean of 25, a SD of 5

drawnorm foo, n(25) means(25) sds(5) clear

Malcolm Gladwell on Jared Diamond's Collapse:
(the lack of) fishbones as an accretion measure.

The Wisconsin Advertising Project:
content analysis coding rules.
4/5 Data analysis II
 The assignment and three Stata files as a zipped archive.
4/7 Data for tabulation
 GSS Data on voting
4/12 ANES data from JR
 In case you need it for question 2.
4/21 data
 Anscombe data
Gender bias data
Alcohol-Tobacco data
Heart Attack data
Education income data
4/25 figures, etc.
 Kennedy's Ballantine graph (inspiration for the graphs)
Multiple regression handout in pdf form.