LPO 9951 at Vanderbilt University, Fall 2015
Course Synopsis Syllabus Schedule Data & Auxiliary Templates Compatibility Issues NotesThe schedule for all class meetings is as follows. Assignments are given in the week they are assigned, meaning that they are due the following week per the syllabus. Additional assignments related to the final project are also listed as they occur.
Class Introduction
LECTURE 1: [Web] [PDF] [Do] [Do]
Stata Basics
Working with NCES Datasets
Dataset Manipulation: Subsetting, appending, collapsing, and merging
ADDITIONAL: Summary research area [Web] [PDF]
More Dataset Manipulation: One to many merging and many to one merging
Introduction to Programming and Helpful Functions
Sampling: Part I
Sampling: Part II
ADDITIONAL: Research questions [Web] [PDF]
Data Cleaning
Data Validation
Descriptive Statistics: tabular and graphical approaches
FINAL ASSIGNMENT: Summary paper, do file, codebook [Web] [PDF]
Reproducible Research I: version control
BEFORE CLASS READING: [Web]
Reproducible Research II: sharing files
Thanksgiving Break - No Class
TBA: based on student work
LECTURE 14: TBA
Class Presentations
Init: 01 July 2015; Updated: 30 August 2015