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General course information: objectives, prerequisites, text, policies, etc.
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Weekly homework assignments (subject to revision as the semester proceeds).
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A few extra sample problems on conditional probability and independence
to supplement the textbook and lectures. Answers are included.
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Solutions to the supplemental questions on
HW2 and HW3 (research design, variables, conditional probability).
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Sample spreadsheet demonstrating how to do most of our (parametric)
statistical tests in Excel.
Also available
for OpenOffice.
Excel is not great for statistics; there are commercial add-ons, as well
as much more sophisticated (and expensive) statistical software
like SPSS
or Stata.
For those not shy of a command-line interface, there is also the very
powerful (and free) R project.
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A directory of a few select research articles (some by our own faculty!).
Journal articles are very challenging to read, but see how much of the
analysis you can understand!
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I taught the same course last year; you may find the old exams and course
material from that offering helpful.
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Every class starts with a short devotional from the Bible, to help keep
everything in perspective!
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