
Stat331 - Autumn 2023
Lecture: Monday/Wednesday 10:30 - 11:50 in Jones 226
Recommended Texts
Homeworks & Supplementary Material
Note: The course assistant recommends using the R programming language and Sweave to submit your homework assignments. A tutorial will be scheduled at the beginning of the quarter.
- Week 1: October 1 to October 7
- Week 2: October 8 to October 14
- Homework 2, Due October 21, in class (pdf)
- Week 3: October 15 to October 21
- Homework 3, Due October 28, in class (pdf)
- Week 4: October 22 to October 26
- Homework 4, Due November 4, in class (pdf)
- Standard Definitions - Disposition Codes (2015) (pdf)
- Sande's paper on Imputations in Surveys (pdf)
- Week 5: October 29 to November2
- Homework 5, Due November 11, in class (pdf)
- Week 6: November 11 to November 15
- Homework 6 Due November 18, in class (pdf)
- Table for Optimum Subsample Sizes (pdf, xlsx)
- Election Polling Lecture Slides (pdf)
- Week 7: November 18 to November 22
- Homework 7, Due November 27, in class (pdf)
- Week 8: November 25 to November 29
- Homework 8, Due December 4, in class (pdf)
- Week 9: December 2 to December 6
- Homework 9, Due December 9, in class (pdf)
- Week 10: December 1 to December 5 <\li>
- Homework 9 (optional) (pdf)
- Final Exam, December 10 (Monday)
- Time: 10:30AM - 12:30PM
- Location: Social Sciences 106
Election Polls
- An Evaluation of 2016 Election Polls in the US (doc)
- First Thoughts on Polling Problems in 2016 (pdf)
- Polls Affected by Treatment of CPO Population - NY Times (doc)
Data, Documentation and Related Files
Note: Many of the files below are in a text format (txt), but some also have specialized versions for R and SAS. For large data sets, we have compressed the files (gzip for Linux/MAC, or zip for Windows). Please let the course assistant know if you have trouble with your downloads or need help unzipping the files.
Faculty data (dat,
sas,
txt)
National Immunization Survey
School District Data
- Data (rdata, gzip, zip, sas)
- Description (txt)
- Use variable PK1201 as a number of students
Schools Data
- Data (txt)
- "member01" is a total number of students in each school.
MU284 population of Sarndal, Swensson, and Wretman
- Data (txt, rdata)
- Published by Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992
- The file contains the explanations on the dataset as well.
Presidential Election Study
- Data (zip)
- Codebook (pdf)
- R Code (r)
AAA Motels Example
- Data (txt)
- R Code (r)
- Reference Table (png)