Key concepts

• Exploratory data analysis (Tukey, 1977)
• Types of variables (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval) (Gordon, 2012)
• Percentiles, quartiles and deciles (Meier et al., 2015; Gordon, 2012)
• Frequency distributions (Meier et al., 2015)
• Box plot and histogram (Gordon, 2012)
• Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) (Meier et al., 2015)
• Measures of dispersion (standard deviation, skewness) (Meier et al., 2015)
• Weighted mean and standard deviation (Gordon, 2012)

Before class

Required readings

• Chapter 4-6: Meier, K. J., Brudney, J. L., & Bohte, J. (2015). Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration (Ninth edition). Cengage Learning.
• Gordon, R. A. (2012). Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences. Routledge.
• Tukey, J. W. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
• Klein, G., & Dabney, A. (2013). The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics (First edition). Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Recommended readings

• Raper, S. (2017). The Shock of the Mean. Significance, 14(6), 12–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01087.x
• Marriott, N. (2019). Gender Pay Gaps A Median‐sized Problem. Significance, 16(4), 38–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01302.x
• USA Temperature: Can I Sucker You? | Open Mind. Retrieved August 25, 2021, from https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/usa-temperature-can-i-sucker-you/

In class

• Take the pre-lecture survey here.
• Lecture on key concepts and frameworks.
• Catch up on major assignments:
  1. Qualitative Test.
  2. Replication project.
  3. Quantitative Test.

After class

Learning plan proposal (final) due this week.