Alan Agresti: 6127-Spring 2007
Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences II
Instructor
Alan Agresti, Department of Statistics
Office Hours
204 Griffin-Floyd Hall: Tuesday & Thursday,
2:00-3:45 pm, or by appointment
Contact Information
Phone number: (352) 392-1941 ext. 234, e-mail aa@stat.ufl.edu
Teaching Assistant
Dhiman Bhadra, office McCarty C 428,
e-mail dbhadra@stat.ufl.edu, office hours MWF 1-3 pm or by appointment.
Data at website for 3rd edition:
Some of the large data
sets from the text are available at Datasets.
Useful links about software
SAS and SPSS are available in all the CIRCA labs, such as CSE
211.
SPSS:
A student version of SPSS is available at the UF
Bookstore next to Reitz Union.
You can get it more cheaply for your home PC
with a one-year license through the Student Home-Use Program.
You may prefer to use the full-fledged version of SPSS in CIRCA labs.
When getting started, it can be helpful to use a primer such as
"SPSS for Windows Step by Step" by D. George and P. Mallery.
Here are some basic instructions for using SPSS and
SAS for various statistical analyses (pdf file). The first half
deals with SPSS. This is a revised version of the appendix in the
course text, and is being updated for the fourth edition. Please
point out any errors you notice.
Homework Announcements
Review homework (pdf file)
Review homework solutions (pdf file)
Homework on multiple regression (Chap. 11) (pdf file)
Multiple regression homework
solutions (Chap. 11) (pdf file)
ANOVA homework
solutions (Chap. 12) (pdf file)
Chap. 13 homework
solutions (pdf file)
Chap. 14 homework
solutions (pdf file)
Chap. 15 homework
solutions (pdf file)
Data Sets
Text file of crime data in Florida counties
SPSS file of crime data in Florida counties
Text file of 2004 statewide crime
data in U.S.
Text file of house selling prices
in Gainesville in 2006.
Text material (no longer available; this is published
in the 3rd edition of the book "Statistical Methods for the Social
Sciences" by Alan Agresti and Barbara Finlay.
Chapter 11 draft (pdf file, copyright Alan
Agresti, 2007)
Chapter 12 draft (pdf file, copyright Alan
Agresti, 2007)
Chapter 13 draft (pdf file, copyright Alan
Agresti, 2007)
Chapter 14 draft (pdf file, copyright Alan
Agresti, 2007)
Chapter 15 draft (pdf file, copyright Alan
Agresti, 2007)
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