Lecture Notes

The lecture slides that were presented during class are available for the sessions listed in the table below.

SES # TOPICS
1 Course overview; epistemological foundations; math review (PDF - 1.1MB)
2 What’s in a number?; basic numeracy; measurement (PDF)
5 Measures of variability (PDF)
6 Exploratory data analysis and visualization (PDF)
14 Cross-tabulations; χ2 tests (PDF)
15 Scatterplots; correlation; cause and effect; confounding variables (PDF)
16 Simple regression (PDF)
17 The assumptions of regression analysis (PDF)
19 Review/slack; presentation and graphs (PDF)
21

Talking about money (PDF)

Lattice plots (PDF)

Course Info

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Spring 2009
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