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Subject Information
This page archives information about 17.801 as taught
in Fall 1999. For the most recent semester, go to the current
home page.
This subject is currently in planning for the fall of
1999. The following will be the books we use in the subject.
Other information will be posted as it's ready.
M. G. Bulmer, Principles of Statistics, Dover
Pubns
Lawrence C. Hamilton, Statistics
w/ STATA 5
Lawrence C. Hamilton, Regression With Graphics: A
Second Course in Applied Statistics, 1992, Brooks/Cole
W. Phillips Shively, The Craft of Political Research,
4th ed (1997), Prentice Hall College Division
Edward Tufte, Data Analysis for
Politics & Policy
Kate Turabian, Manual for
Writers of Term Papers, Theses, etc.
(You will need Adobe
Acrobat to read the following files)
Problem sets
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Data Links
Links down this column of the page refer to various
data sites that have proved useful over the years. I invite
nominations for new sites and information about inactive sites.
Harvard-MIT
Data Center
UC Data
Archive @ Berkeley
Washington
Post gateway to government Internet resources.
American Religion Data Archive
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of
Justice Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Division
of Science Resources Studies (NSF)
Economic Research Service
(Dept. of Agriculture)
Energy Information Administration
Environmental
Protection Agency
Federal
Budget (FY 2000)
FEDSTATS (Index
to federal agency statistics on line)
National
Agricultural Statistics Service
National Center for
Education Statistics
National Center
for Health Statistics
Office
of Management and Budget
Office
of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics (Social Security Administration)
Statistics
of Income Division (Internal Revenue Service)
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Federal Election Commission
World
Bank: Social Indicators of Development, 1995
World
Bank: Trends in Developing Economies, 1995
Methodology
section, APSA
Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR),
the world's largest archive of computer-readable social science data.
National Election
Study (NES), for information about public
opinion studies
Lijphart Elections Archive,
a collection of data about legislative elections in approximately 26 countries.
Political
Science Manuscripts
Political
Science Departments
Political
Science Personal Home pages
Resources
for Political Scientists (Univ. of Colorado)
Political
Sci Research Page (CalState, San Marcos)
Political
Sci Research Library (CalState, San Marcos)
American
Journal of Political Science
Electoral
Studies
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