Sociology 241, Social Statistics 1

Lectures and Labs, Tuesdays and Fridays, HE B118

Readings, Quizzes, & Lab Assignments
Instructor: Li, Xuemeng (xl752@hunter.cuny.edu)
Office Hour: 11:30am-12:30pm Tuesdays, HW1636 (and by appointment)

Homework
Date Reading Topic (Not graded BUT tested on exams) Lab and Quiz
Know how to do these types of exercises!

Types of Measurement Scales; Establish CAMS & Blackboard computer

T 08/27 Chapter 1-2 Quiz1: Fill out the GSS questionnaire
Relative Contexts for Counting accounts.

p. 19 # 1.4 A,C,D,H,J Quiz2: Types of Measurement Scales

p. 19 # 1.6 D.E,H (Also count number of #1How to use Blackboard, run SPSS program,
F 08/30 How data is organized in SPSS variables & list by name. SKIP access data, and use remote connection from
“continuous/discrete.”) home computer.
p.20 #1.7 B Lab assignment1: Create your own dataset

p. 59 # 2.2 A,B,C,D,E,H,J
T 09/03 Chapter 3 Frequency and Central Tendency Quiz3: Frequency and Central Tendency
p. 59 # 2.4 State data only.

#2 SPSS Descriptive/Frequencies.
F 09/06 Lab assignment2: Produce frequency tables &
bar charts for assigned variables

p. 83 # 3.2
T 09/10 Chapter 4 Dispersion: variance and std. dev. p. 87 # 3.12 Pretest only Quiz4: Example on computing Std. dev.
p. 113 # 4.6A Pretest only

#3 SPSS Descriptive/Frequencies: Central

Appendix F Lab: Frequency, central tendency Tendency and dispersion
F 09/13
Appendix G and dispersion Lab assignment3: Produce tables for interval-
ratio level of measurement & histogram curves

T 09/17 Chapters 1-4 Review Lab assignment4: Descriptive stats for variable you chose (CUNY commons bonus)

F 09/20 IN-CLASS EXAM 1

 Homework
Date Reading Topic Lab and Quiz
(Not graded BUT tested on exams)
p. 138 # 5.3 B,D,F,H If N=500, how many
students are in each group?
T 09/24 Chapter 5 Normal Distribution – Z Scores Quiz5: Estimate with Z-score
p. 139 # 5.10 A, C, E
p. 139 # 5.14
#5 SPSS Descriptive Stats/Explore
Make Z-scores for AGE & EDUC.
F 09/27 Lab assignment5: You will be assigned 2
variables in lab and estimate percentage with
Z-scores.

T 10/01 No Class

p. 181 # 7.7A Also do 95% confidence level

Inferential Statistics &
F 10/04 Chapter 6-7 p. 181 # 7.7A Also do N = 17, 95% Quiz6: Confident Interval
Estimation
confidence level
T 10/08 No Class
#6 SPSS Descriptive Stats/Explore output
(99% confidence intervals) and practice
F 10/11 interpretations.
Lab assignment6: You will be assigned 2
variables in lab and estimate with c.i.
Use 95% confidence level:
T 10/15 Chapter 8 Hypothesis Testing (z-test) p. 213 # 8.6 Quiz7: t-test
p. 214 # 8.8 a

Hypothesis Testing (1-sample

F 10/18
t-test)

#7 SPSS Compare means for assigned interval/ratio variables: 1-sample output; independent
Hypothesis Testing samples grouped by sex output
T 10/22 Chapter 9
2-sample t-test Lab assinment7: Submit output of 1&2-sample t-test, and write summary for all statistics in
the table.

F 10/25 Chapters 5-9 Review Explanation for Quiz5-7

T 10/29 Chapters 5-9 Review
F 11/01 IN-CLASS EXAM 2
T 11/05 Chapter10 ANOVA Quiz8: ANOVA test
 Homework
Date Reading Topic Lab and Quiz
(Not graded BUT tested on exams)
Lab assignment8: Determine the
F 11/08
significance of the group difference.
Significance test on discrete variables;
Chapters 11-12 Association: Nominal & use 95% confidence level
T 11/12 Quiz9: Chi-Square & Associations
(Chi-Square test) Ordinal Measurement Scales
p. 298 11.6

#9 SPSS Descriptive Stats: Submit cross-tabs

F 11/15 with Chi-sq, Cramer’s V and Gamma

Determine direction & strength

T 11/19 Chapter 13-14 Elaboration Examples for Lambda and Gamma
p. 400 14.4A only with chi-sq & phi

Lab assinment9: Submit cross-tabs for

F 11/22 nominal & ordinal X & Y variables, phi or
V, chi-square output & written summary

#10 SPSS Correlation: Submit output for bivariate correlations for X Y & Z variables &
Association: Interval/Ratio
T 11/26 Chapter 15 written summary
Scales (Correlation)
Lab assignment10: Correlation

F 11/29 No Class
#11 SPSS Regression: output for X, Y & Z interval/ratio variables & written summary for
Association: Interval/Ratio
T 12/03 Chapter 16 assigned variables.
Scales (Regression)
Lab assinment11: Regression

F 12/06 Chapters 10-16 Review Explanation for Quiz8-9

T 12/10 Last Chance to Make up all the exams and quizzes
F 12/13 Reading day/No class

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