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Moore, D., and W. I. Notz. Statistics: Concepts and Controversies. 6th ed. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman, 2006. ISBN: 0716786362.

Meier, K., J. Brudney, and J. Bohte. Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006. ISBN: 0534602681.

Ormsby, et al. Getting to Know ArcGIS™ Desktop. 2nd ed. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2004. ISBN: 158948083X.

Horwitz, L., and L. Ferleger. "Statistics and logic." In Statistics for Social Change. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1980. ISBN: 092005711X.

Hodge, G. "The use and mis-use of measurement scales in city planning." Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1963).

Lehman, Ann, and John Sall. Excerpts from "Why is it Called Regression?" JMPer Cable no. 6 (Summer 1998), SAS Institute, Inc. (PDF - 1.2 MB)

Marsh, C. "Opinion polls-social science or political maneuver?" In Demystifying Social Statistics. Edited by J. Irvine, I. Miles, and J. Evans. London, UK: Pluto Press, 1979. ISBN: 0861040686.

Monmonier, Mark. "Data maps: making nonsense of the census." Chapter 9 in How to Lie with Maps. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991. ISBN: 0226534154.

Orfield, Myron. "Affordable housing and the tax base." Chapter 4 in Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1998. ISBN: 0815766394.

O'Sullivan, David, and David Unwin. Geographic Information Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 0471211761.

Savas, E. "The Political Properties of Crystalline H2O: Planning for Snow Emergencies in New York." Management Science 20, no. 2 (1973).

Scanlan, J. "The Perils of Provocative Statistics." Public Interest 120 (1991): 3-14.

Tufte, E. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1983, chapter 2, pp. 53-78. ISBN: 096139210X.

Course readings.

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
L1	Introduction to Course
L2	What is an Argument?	Horwitz and Ferleger. Mission: Critical
L3	Measurement	Hodge. Moore and Notz. Chapters 8 and 16. Meier and Bohte. Chapter 2.
R1	Recitation 1
L4	Research Design	Hilton, Sterling C., and Howard B. Christensen. "Evaluating the Impact of Multimedia Lectures on Student Learning and Attitudes." ICOTS6, 2002. Meier and Bohte. Chapter 3. Moore and Notz. Chapters 5, 6, and 7.
L5	Frequency Distributions, Histograms, Stemplots, Boxplots, Measures of Dispersion	Meier and Bohte. Chapters 4, 5 and 6. Moore and Notz. Chapters 10, 11 and 12.
R2	Lab 1
L6	Introduction to Probability	Meier and Bohte. Chapter 7. Moore and Notz. Chapters 17 and 18.
L7	The Normal and Binomial Distributions	Meier and Bohte. Chapters 8 and 9. Moore and Notz. Chapter 13. Scanlan.
R3	Recitation 3
L8	Sampling	Moore and Notz. Chapters 1-4. Census 2000 SF3 Documentation. (PDF - 5.9 MB) Census 2000 PUMS Documentation. (PDF - 4.6 MB)
L9	Basics of Confidence Intervals and Tests of Significance	Meier and Bohte. Chapter 11. Moore and Notz. Chapter 21, pp. 436-440.
R4	Recitation 4
L10	Recap: CIs and Inference for Means	Meier and Bohte. Chapter 11. Moore and Notz. Chapter 21, pp. 436-440.
L11	CIs and Inference for Proportions and Hypothesis Testing	Meier and Bohte. Chapters 12-13. Moore and Notz. Chapters 21-22, pp. 425-436.
R5	Recitation 5
L12	Testing the Difference Between Two Groups	Moore and Notz. Chapter 23. Meier and Bohte. Chapter 14, pp. 217-227.
L13	Testing the Difference Between Two Groups	Meier and Bohte. Chapter 14, pp. 227-228.
L14	Review for Mid-term
L15	Mid-term Exam
L16	Analyzing Categorical Data	Meier and Bohte. Chapters 15-16, pp. 259-269. Moore and Notz. Chapter 24.
L17	Scatterplots and Correlation	Moore and Notz. Chapter 14.
R6	Lab 2
L18	Introduction to Regression Analysis	Meier and Bohte. Chapter 18. Moore, David S. The Basic Practice of Statistics. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman, 1995, chapter 5. ISBN: 0716726289.
R7	Recitation 7
L19	Regression (cont.)	Meier and Bohte. Chapter 19. Moore, David S. The Basic Practice of Statistics. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman, 1995, chapter 5. ISBN: 0716726289.
L20	Multiple Regression	Meier and Bohte. Chapter 21, pp. 385-401.
	Paper Preparation
R8	Lab 3
L21	Multiple Regression (cont.)	Meier and Bohte. Chapter 23.
L22	Spatial Data Analysis	Monmonier. Chapter 9. O'Sullivan and Unwin.
R9	Lab 4
L23	The Census
L24	Quiz
R10	Recitation 10
L25	Research Design and Regression Analysis
L26	Wrap-up