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?

(c) Install the package "gmodels" and try to display the table using the function CrossTable(). This will give you output very similar to SPSS.

(c) It's important to be able to import tables directly into your word processor without cutting and pasting individual cells. Can you export the output of your table? There are a bunch of functions you can use to do this. I used the "xtable" package but I think that write.table() and Excel would do the job just as well.

PC2. At the Community Data Science Workshops we had two parallel afternoon sessions on Day 1. In my session, there were 42 participants. In Tommy Guy's session, there were only 19. The next week (Day 2), we asked folks to raise their hands if they had been in Tommy's session (14 did ) and how many had been in mine (31 did). There was clearly attrition in both groups! Was there more attrition in one group than another? Try answering this both with a test of proportions (prop.test()) and with a

\chi ^{2}

. Compare your answers. Is there convincing evidence that there is a dependence between instructor and attrition?

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.