Research Methods and Applied Statistics

Spring 2004

PAD/PPOL 202 Section 81

Tuesday Thursday, 6:10pm-8:00pm, Monroe 204

Lab section 83, Tuesdays 8:10 Monroe 102B

Instructor:

Eric Lawrence

Office:

MPA 616

Office Hours:

By appointment

Office Phone:

994-4826

E-mail:

edl@gwu.edu

Course web site:

home.gwu.edu/~edl/spppa202.html

 

 

Lab Instructor:

Mallory Barg, MPA 625 malb@gwu.edu, 994-9141

Office Hours: W 10-12

 For ordering Stata through the GW GradPlan, go here.

Lab Dates:
Problem Set I
Descriptive Statistics
 1/27; 2/3
dataset for question 4
Problem Set II
Sampling and Confidence Intervals
 2/24; 3/9
dataset
Problem Set III
Bivariate Statistics
 3/30; 4/6; 4/13
Lottery 1970 dataset
Lottery 1971 dataset
Problem Set IV
Multivariate Statistics
 4/20; 4/27
dataset


     Web sites for Course Books:

Trochim via Atomic Dog, Levin and Fox

                Supplemental Readings:
1/20/04 Robert Reischauer on  evidence based policy making.
                           [Read prior to the midterm]
1/20/04 George Will on state education spending and SAT scores.
[Read for 1/20]
1/20/04  The UC Study of the SAT test
                               [Optional; read if you are interested]
1/22/04  The Howard Wainer article from which material was drawn
                               [Optional, from J-STOR; read if you are interested]
And related to Wainer's discussion, Tufte's PowerPoint is Evil essay from Wired magazine        
1/27/04   Stephen Jay Gould article: "The Median Isn't the Message"