Week

Date

Topic

Lab

Due

1

Wed

08/26/20

Introduction to the course

Register to CUNY Commons

2

Mon

08/31/20

Research process
Read: Healey Ch. 1
Read: Open Intro p.12, 15-16, 18

Lab 1 Math review

2

Wed

09/02/20

Variables and survey design
Read: Harvard University Program on Survey Research, Tip Sheet

Lab 2 Design a survey

Lab 1, Excel installation

3

Mon

09/07/20

No class

Labor day

3

Wed

09/09/20

Sampling strategies
Read: Healey Ch 5 pp. 130-133
Read: Open Intro Ch. 1 pp. 22-27

Lab 3 Designing a sampling strategy

Lab 2

4

Mon

09/14/20

Research analysis in Excel

Lab 4 Group research design

Lab 3

4

Wed

09/16/20

Descriptive statistics
Read Healey, Ch 2

Lab 5 Descriptive stats

Lab 4

5

Mon

09/21/20

Visualizing descriptive statistics

Lab 5 Descriptive stats (cont.)

5

Wed

09/23/20

Measures of central tendency
Read Healey Ch. 3

Lab 6 Measures of Central Tendency

Lab 5

Mon

09/28/20

No class

6

Tue

09/29/20

Measures of dispersion
Read Healey Ch. 4

Lab 7Measures of dispersion

Lab 6

6

Wed

09/30/20

(Monday’s class) GROUP PRESENTATION

Group presentations

7

Mon

10/05/20

Normal curve and Z score
Read Open Intro pp 133-141
Consult Healey Ch. 5

Lab 8 Z-scores

Lab 7

7

Wed

10/07/20

The sampling distribution
Read Healey Ch. 6
Consult Open Intro pp 171-173

Lab 9 Sampling distribution

Lab 8

8

Mon

10/12/20

No class

8

Wed

10/14/20

Confidence intervals
Read Healey Ch. 7
Consult Open Intro pp 181-186

Lab 10 Confidence intervals

Lab 9

9

Mon

10/19/20

Hypothesis testing: 1-sample case (means)
Read Healey Ch.8 pp 181-198

Lab 11 One sample hypothesis testing for means

Lab 10

9

Wed

10/21/20

Review session

Lab 11

10

Mon

10/26/20

EXAM #1

10

Wed

10/28/20

Hypothesis testing: 1-sample case (proportions)
Read Healey Ch. 8 pp 203-207

Lab 12 One sample hypothesis testing for proportions

11

Mon

11/02/20

Hypothesis testing: 2-sample case (means)
Read Healey Ch. 9 pp 212-218

Lab 13 Two-sample hypothesis testing for means

Lab 12

11

Wed

11/04/20

Hypothesis testing: 2-sample case (proportions)
Read Healey Ch. 9 pp 221-231

Lab 13 cont Two-sample hypothesis testing for proportions

12

Mon

11/09/20

Cont. Hypothesis testing: 2-sample means and proportions

Lab 13

12

Wed

11/11/20

Review session

13

Mon

11/16/20

EXAM #2

13

Wed

11/18/20

Bivariate analysis and introduction to Chi-square tests. An overview

14

Mon

11/23/20

Bivariate analysis for nominal variables
Read Healey Ch. 12
Consult Open Intro pp 229-231

Lab 14 Bivariate analysis and Chi-square

14

Wed

11/25/20

No class

(Friday schedule)

15

Mon

11/30/20

Bivariate analysis T-test and ANOVA an overview.

Consult Healey Ch. 10 and 13

Bivariate analysis ordinal variables
Read Healey Ch. 13

Lab 15 Bivariate analysis Chi-square cont.

Lab 14 (e-mail)

15

Wed

12/02/20

Bivariate analysis. Review Chi-square, T-test, and ANOVA.

Overview of scatterplots and correlations
Review Healey Ch 14

Lab 16 Bivariate T-test and/or ANOVA

Lab 15

16

Mon

12/07/20

Bivariate analysis for correlations and an overview of regressions
Review Healey Ch 14

Lab 17 Bivariate analysis for interval variables

Lab 16

16

Wed

12/09/20

Review session

Lab 17

Mon

12/14/20

FINAL EXAM