Sociology 360. Statistics for Sociologists I.
Instructor: Prof. Logan
Spring, 2008.
Lecture Slides in Four-Per-Page PDF Format
Slides for Exam 1 Topics:
Chapter 1. Picturing distributions
Chapter 2. Describing distributions
Chapter 3. The normal distribution
Chapter 4. Scatterplots and correlation
Chapter 5. Regression
Chapter 6. Categorical data: two-way tables
Practice Exam 1
Formula Sheet (to be provided w/ Exam 1)
Slides for Exam 2 Topics:
Chapter 8. Producing data: sampling
Chapter 9. Producing data: experiments
Chapter 10. Introducing probability
Chapter 11. Sampling distributions
Chapter 14. Confidence intervals
Chapter 15. Tests of significance
Practice Exam 2
Exam 2 Review Slides
Slides for Exam 3 Topics:
Chapter 16. Inference in practice
Chapter 18. Inference about a population mean
Chapter 19. Two-sample problems
Chapter 20. Inference about a population proportion
Chapter 21 will NOT BE COVERED in lecture or on the 3rd exam.
Chapter 23. Two categorical variables: the chi-square test
Chapter 24. Inference for regression
Textbook Webpage (The Basic Practice of Statistics)
Other resources:
Statsoft's Statistics Homepage (Note: not to be considered definitive!)
American Statistical Association Homepage
UW Statistics Software and Search Engines listing
"Genuine" random numbers, generated by random decay: HotBits
Notes: I usually post a version of the slides on the same day as the lecture.
If the pdf files don't contain all the graphs and equations (as seen in class)
try saving them from Internet Explorer (by right-clicking and saving to disk)
and then opening them with Acrobat Reader.