Week 2: Observational Studies and Descriptive Statistics

Reading

• Sections 2.5-2.6 of Quantitative Social Science.

Tutorials

• Complete “QSS Tutorial 2: Causality II” and upload the PDF report you produce at the end of the tutorial to Gradescope (see link at the top of this page) by Monday, September 14th 11:59pm ET.
• If you have any issues opening the tutorial, please see the instructions on how to install the tutorials.

Problem Sets

• Problem Set 1 is due on Wednesday, 9/16 at 11:59pm ET.

Lecture Video 3: Observational Studies

Lecture Video 4: Descriptive Statistics

Live Meeting

• Data: newspapers.csv
• Completed Rmd file with all prompts: week-02-notes.Rmd
• Zoom Recording (Go to “Cloud Recordings” Tab)
• Video of Prof Blackwell’s solutions: