Learning objectives week 5:

• understand levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio).
  
• understand the distribution of variables (histograms, cumulative distribution functions, stem and leaf plots).
• Explore how to describe distributions (kurtosis, etc.)
• learn how to obtain basic descriptive statistics, using Stata

Lecture (Levels of Measurement and Distributions):

• Homework week 5:
  • Read at least one of the items from the list below.
    
• Required reading week 5:
  • Coolidge, Frederick L. 2012. Statistics: A Gentle Introduction. Sage. Chapter 2
    
  • Lomax, Richard G. and Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn. 2012. An Introduction to Statistical Concepts, 3rd edition. Routledge. Sections 1.5., 2.1.-2.2., and chapter 4
    

Seminar (Stata Session: Our University):

• Homework week 5:
  • Ensure you have transferred all the data generated in week 3 into your data set (see week 4)
    
  • Read the required literature, see below.
• Required reading week 5:
  
  • Acock, Alan C. 2014. A Gentle Introduction to Stata, Fourth Edition, Stata Press. Chapter 5.
    

Recommended reading for week 5:

• Hamilton, Lawrence. 2008. Statistics with Stata - International Edition. Stata Press