Week 8: \*\ Inferential statistics II - Population and testing difference
Key concepts
- Population proportions (Meier et al., 2015)
- Difference of means (Meier et al., 2015)
- One-way ANOVA (Wonnacott & Wonnacott, 1990)
- Independent and dependent samples (Meier et al., 2015)
- Contingency tables (Meier et al., 2015)
Before class
Required readings
- Meier, K. J., Brudney, J. L., & Bohte, J. (2015). Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration (Ninth edition). Cengage Learning., Chapters 12-14, Ch 15 (pp 258-268)
- Wonnacott, T. H., & Wonnacott, R. J. (1990). Introductory Statistics (5th ed). Wiley., Only Chapter 10.1 (one-way ANOVA)
- Klein, G., & Dabney, A. (2013). The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics (First edition). Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux., Chapters 11, 12 & 13
Recommended readings
- Fink, S. (2018). Puerto Rico: How Do We Know 3,000 People Died as a Result of Hurricane Maria? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/puerto-rico-death-tolls.html
- ZACH. (2020). 4 Examples of Using ANOVA in Real Life. Statology. https://www.statology.org/anova-real-life-examples/
In class
Take the pre-lecture survey here.