Redlands Instructional Videos: “Working with Statistics”
This is a (very) small collection of videos that show how statistics can help us discover things about our society and our environment.
- “What Every Child Should Know”
- This video uses survey data to find out how people rank 5 traits that everyone agrees that kids need to learn, but that different people value differently. It uses simple distributions and cross-tabulations to show what kinds of people rank each of those traits highest.
Software
Here are two software resources for learning how to use quantitative analysis. Each comes with an online guidebook.
- Sociological Insights (software zip file) and Thinking Through Statistics (book), both by Jim Spickard. Written in 2005. Now free for downloading.
- Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction, by Kieran Healy. This is the book. It starts by showing you how to build the software in R. Very cool
YouTube
YouTube hosts a rather bewildering array of videos on quantitative data analysis. Some of it is good, some is bad, and some is just boring. Here are some places to begin:
(please note that Jim checks this list about once a year for broken links)
- What is a Correlation? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypgo4qUBt5o
- Z-scores: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mai23vW8uFM&feature=related
- Linear Regression (correlation), with a bit of multiple at the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIqyiGvrUXE&feature=related
- Other videos in this series, based on a textbook. (Talking head alert.)
- Comparing populations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWeOg5C1sZY&list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&index=3&feature=plcp
- Sampling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgPmKTdUsE&list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&index=19&feature=plcp
- Probability Distributions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yng9pQQmJUE&list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&index=20&feature=plcp
- Probability: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhOTjLOPWbU&list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&index=21&feature=plcp
- Measurement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIhU9HB1NwM&list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&index=22&feature=plcp
- Presenting Data: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKPhtBIsyIY&list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&index=23&feature=plcp
- Also Hypothesis Testing, Estimation, Introduction:
- FULL LIST IS HERE: (except regression & population comparison)
- Other videos in this series, based on a textbook. (Talking head alert.)