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Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences I
Instructor
Alan Agresti, Department of Statistics
Office Hours
204 Griffin-Floyd Hall: Tuesday & Thursday,
1:30-3:30 pm, or by appointment
Contact Information
Phone number: (352) 392-1941 ext. 234, e-mail aa@stat.ufl.edu
Teaching Assistant
Youngkyoung Min, 212 Griffin-Floyd,
392-1941, ext. 226, e-mail ymin2@stat.ufl.edu, office hours MWF 2-4
pm or by appointment.
Data for exercises using software:
Some of the large data
sets from the text are available in Datasets. The dataset you will need
for some homework exercises is the file of results from the survey of
STA 6126 students survey.txt. (The
description of the variables is at the webpage Datasets.)
Useful links about software
SAS and SPSS are available in all the CIRCA labs, such as CSE
E211.
SPSS:
A student version of SPSS is available (e.g., at the
Technology Hub on the first floor of the campus bookstore) for about
$80. This student version does not handle some advanced methods
covered in STA 6127 (such as logistic regression) which are available
in the more expensive version that sells for about $200. You can get
SPSS more cheaply ($45) for your home PC with a one-year license
through the Student
Home-Use Program, but licenses terminate on November 30.
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.
Instructions for reading data files into
SPSS and doing regression analyses (Thanks to Brian Gridley, Political
Science Department at UF, for this document, which was a class project
in STA 6127).
SAS:
You can get SAS for your home PC with a one-year
license through the Student
Home-Use Program. Licenses terminate on August 31.
The CIRCA handout "SAS for
Windows" is useful for getting started. It can also be helpful to
use a primer such as "The Little SAS Book: A Primer" by L. Delwiche
and S. Slaughter or "SAS System for Elementary Statistical Analysis
(2nd edition)" by S. Schlotzhauer and R. Littell.
The SAS/STAT User's Guide contains more detailed information. See
SAS/STAT
guide. A link to SAS manuals is SAS Manuals.
R:
This is free software, popular among statisticians
because of its power and flexibility but harder to learn to use. For
useful information and links, see the homepage of "Dr. Brett Presnell".
Exams
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