Statistics and Statistical Programming (Winter 2017)/Problem Set: Week 7

Programming Challenges

PC1. Download this dataset in Stata DTA format which contains an anonymized and reduced version of the data visualized in the Buechley and Hill paper on Lilypad. Once you have it

(a) Reproduce both Table 1 and Table 2 (just US users) using the dataset (as closely as possible).

(b) Run a

\chi ^{2}

-test on both tables. Compare to the paper. Did you reproduce it?

PC2.

Statistical Questions from OpenIntro §6

Q0. Any questions or clarifications from the OpenIntro text or lecture notes?

Q1. Exercise 7.6 using some census data from the UK

Q2. Exercise 7.40 using date from rate my professor

Q3. Exercise 8.4 on school absenteeism

Q4. Exercise 8.10 on school absenteeism again (no sub-parts)

Q5. Exercise 8.14 on evaluating regression residuals (no sub-parts)

Empirical Paper Questions

These questions are about the Lampe and Resnick paper. For this week, we'll focus on the correlation table (Table 3) and the regression table in Table 5. We'll come back to the logistic regression next week.

Q6.