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Created: June 28, 2003
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Soc. 220: Statistics
Class and Internet Discussions

Preparatory Readings for Week 01:

• Lecture on Intro to Everyday Statistical Reasoning

• Statistics in the New Millennium

Preparatory Readings for Week 02: Graphs

• Lecture on Demographics: An Important Control Variable

• On Learning to See Graphs

Preparatory Readings for Week 03: Interpreting Statistics

• Coincidence and the Law of Large Numbers

Preparatory Readings for Week 09: Using Charts and Data to Illustrate a Paper

• Surf Your Watershed Suppose you were asked to write a paper on emerging social issues on water in the LA basin. Where would you find the data? How would you use the data in a paper or presentation?

Preparatory Readings for Week 10: Multiple Regression

Limits of and Alternatives to Multiple Regression in Macro-Comparative Research PDF file.

1. The trouble with Multiple Regression At p. 4.
2. "Causal arguments" or mere "summaries"? At p. 10.
3. Building confidence through triangulation At p. 14.
4. Is pooling a panacea? At p. 16.
5. Testing the regime approach At p. 23.
6. Conclusion At p. 28.
7. Bibliography (added Sep. 1998) At p. 32.