Group A students can attend Tuesdays but not Thursdays.
Group B students can attend Thursdays but not Tuesdays.
Weekly assignments due from everyone Saturdays at 3:00 p.m.

August 25 & 27, 2020
Topics to cover: course organization, Canvas, the General Social Survey, how to make SPSS go.

September 1 & 3
Levels of measurement, frequencies.

September 8 & 10
Central tendency, dispersion, skewness, kurtosis.

September 15 & 17
Charts and graphs.

September 22 & 24
Composite (scale) measures, reliability, Chronbach’s alpha.

September 29 & October 1
Recoding variables, crosstabs, dependent & independent variables.

October 6 & 8
Chi square, null hypotheses, p values, spuriousness.

October 13 & 15
Creating datasets, importing and merging data from Excel to SPSS.

October 20 & 22
T tests.

October 27 & 29
ANOVA.

November 3 & 5
Correlation.

November 10 & 12
Bivariate regression.

November 17 & 19
Multiple regression, multicollinearity.

November 24 & 26
Multiple regression, multicollinearity.
[Tuesday: catch up day. Thursday: Thanksgiving holiday!]

December 1 & 3
Dummy variables.

December 8
Class notes due via Canvas no later than 3:30 p.m.