Statistics

links and files

• Illowsky and Dean's Introductory Statistics
• course syllabus
• midterm review
• statistics board


• Wdowiak (2017).   minimum wage, employment and annual pay
• Schmitt (CEPR, 2013).   effect of minimum wage on employment
• Wikipedia.   Minimum Wage


• my econometrics course
• statistics references and software

datasets

• WHD minimum wage by state 1968 to 2024
• BLS employment status by state
• annual data   (CSV)
• monthly data, seas. adj.   (CSV)
• Vaghul & Zipperer (WCEG, 2016).   minimum wage data
• USA state panel -- BLS employment with VZ minimum wage
• CSV file   R script   Gretl data

course outline

• introductory discussions
• statistics vs. machine learning
• Bender and Koller (2020). "Climbing towards NLU"
• the octopus test – notes on Bender and Koller's paper
• Wdowiak. monopsonist and minimum wage
• Wdowiak (2017). minimum wage, employment and annual pay


• lecture 1 – introduction to data analysis
• Illowsky and Dean, chap. 1


• lecture 2 – measures of central tendency and measures of variability
• Illowsky and Dean, chap. 2
• homework 2
• Psychology Today dataset
• Redbook dataset
• description of the datasets
• Ray Fair (JPE, 1978). "Theory of Extramarital Affairs."
• Bell's Palsy assignment
• Bell's Palsy dataset for Gretl
• Bell's Palsy dataset in CSV


• lecture 3 – probability and the binomial distribution
• Illowsky and Dean, chaps. 3 and 4
• homework 3
• US state data
• description of the datasets


• lecture 4 – the normal distribution
• Illowsky and Dean, chaps. 5 and 6


• lecture 5 – parameter estimation
• Illowsky and Dean, chaps. 7 and 8


• lecture 6 – hypothesis testing
• Illowsky and Dean, chaps. 9, 10 and 11


• lecture 7 – correlation and regression
• Illowsky and Dean, chap. 12
• Wdowiak. notes on regression
• homework 7
• GDP per worker dataset
• US labor market dataset


• lecture 8 – goodness of fit
• Illowsky and Dean, chap. 13
• homework 8
• US state data

textbook and software

• Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean (2023). Introductory Statistics, 2e. OpenStax.
• Gretl (software)