Quantitative Reasoning – Fall 2002 – Case 3

Race and Residence in Massachusetts

 

THE DATA

the data: race_residence.sav (you must be in Explorer to download these files directly from the website, otherwise, follow directions for mapping to ambr)

the data codebook

Census 2000

other useful census links

MassGIS

 

IN OTHER DATA....

The Lewis Mumford Center

 

 

 

THE COURSE

syllabus

course reader available at the Soc Dept

labs

homework assignments

 

SOFTWARE & COMPUTING

SPSS cribsheets

instructions for mapping drives etc.

 

MISCELLANEOUS LECTURE STUFF

Distributions

the normal curve

joint distribution example

the standard deviation

dependent and independent variables

percentaging crosstabs

county concentration maps

indices of residential segregation

lecture 3, table

extended chi-square example

table of chi-square probabilities

another QR chi-square example.... thank you Professor Schwartz

recent Census brief on residential segregation

reading tables practice