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