News and announcements

• FINAL EXAM IS IN MONTIETH 203
• Review sheet for final exam
• Final exam from last year
• Nov 5 quiz with answers
• Dec 3 quiz with answers
• On-line calculator
• More calculators

Information

• The syllabus
• Revised syllabus for last weeks of the course
• Web site for George and Mallery, SPSS for Windows Step by Step

Data

• Questionnaire from survey on religion
• SPSS data from survey on religion
• SPSS data from survey on religion--including some recoded variables
• SPSS data on nations
• Questionnaire on which nations data is based
• Data on temperatures in American Cities
• Data on weather in 1000+ locations in US



Class Notes

• Aug 25
• Aug 27
• Aug 29
• Sept 5
• Sept 15
• Sept 19
• Sept 22
• Sept 26
• Sept 29
• Oct 1
• Oct 3
• Oct 6
• Oct 17
• Oct 20
• Oct 22
• Oct 29
• Oct 31
• Nov 3
• Nov 5
• Nov 10
• Nov 12
• Nov 14
• Nov 21
• Dec 1
• Dec 5
• Handout on Exporting SPSS output

Other handouts

• Example of regression results, Oct 17
• List of names for the countries in PEW_GLOBAL_207 data
• Handout on recoding and transforming variables
• Handout on calculating correlation from standardized scores
• Midterm from Fall 2002
• Nov 14 assignment (interaction effects) with answers

Quotes

• "Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go, and informed by fairly good judgment."--Hilaire Belloc, On Statistics.
• "Nor will the historian worship at the shrine of that Bitch-goddess, QUANTIFICATION"--Carl Bridenbaugh, American Historical Review, 1963
• "...statistics are the most fascinating of all pursuits. If you have any ulterior object, political or otherwise, you may find them dry, tedious, and unsatisfactory. But if you love Science for her own sake, she will return your affection, and invest your studies with a charm unknown to the votaries of wealth, pleasure, or ambition." --Michael Mulhall, Contemporary Review, 1890
• "Let us remember the unfortunate econometrician who, in one of the major functions of his system, had to use a proxy for risk and a dummy for sex."--Fritz Machlup, Journal of Political Economy, 1974
• "nothing between human beings is more than three to one." Attributed to Damon Runyon by Robert Solow, American Economic Review, 1985