ECON 303
Statistics for the Social Sciences
Spring 2008
 
 
Class Notes,
Homework and answers
Assignments, and Handouts
TTH
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Academic Building 1023
Dr. Gabriel Martínez
Office: Academic 2056
 
 
 
Economics can be one of the most interesting and useful things you’ll ever learn. Economics is filled with excitement: the pleasure of understanding a model, the thrill of the hunt for explanations, the electrifying debates about the big questions of society.

At the same time, it is tremendously useful. Families, corporations, and governments use economics when they make decisions about their income and their expenses, the products they make, their reactions to events, and their world-changing policies.

Some of the most influential people in the world are economists by training and by profession. The world is in great need of economists who are leaders, both professionally and morally.

If you put your brain and your heart into this class – if you do the work and go beyond the assignments – you will be richly rewarded.
 
Schedule of Classes, Readings, and Assignments
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Date
Reading
 Notes
Assignment
 
 
 
INTRODUCTION
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
Jan
15
T
Introduction   /   Syllabus 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
Part I -  Data
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
17
Th
ch1
 Glossary -
use this for the quiz
 
22
T
      Homework
 
24
Th
      
 
29
T
  Chapter 2: Examining Relationships ch2  Homework
 
31
Th
      
Feb
5
T
      
 
7
Th
 Chapter 3: Producing Data ch3 Homework
 
12
T
 Test 1
   Carry out survey
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
Part II - Probability and Inference
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
14
Th
Chapter 4: Probability and Sampling Distributions
 ch4 Homework
Carry out survey
 
19
T
 
   Carry out survey
 
21
Th
Chapter 6: Introduction to Inference
 ch6 Homework
Carry out survey
 
26
T
      
 
28
Th
 Presentations   Data Examination
 Mar
4
T
 Chapter 7: Inference for Distributions ch7 Homework
 
6
Th
      
 
11
T
 
    
 
13
Th
      
 
18
T
 Test 2
    
 
20
Th
 Holy Thursday    
 
25
T
 Easter Break    
 
27
Th
Easter Break
    
           
 
 
 
Part III - Topics in Inference
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 Apr
1
T
Chapter 10: Inference for Regression
   Homework
 
3
Th
 
    
 
8
T
Chapter 11: Multiple Regression
   Homework
 
10
Th
     Simple Hypothesis Testing
 
15
T
      
 
17
Th
      
 
22
T
 
    
 
24
Th
 Chapter 5: Probability Theory (sections 5.1 and 5.4)   Homework
 
29
T
 Presentations   Data Analysis

May
1
Th
Reading Day
  
 
 
TBD
Cumulative Final Exam           
   Study Guide
 

Last Revised: Monday, May 05, 2008


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