2011 ICPSR Summer Program

SCALING AND DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS

"Minimizing stress and rotating in n-space since 1984!"

Instructors: Office: E-mail: Office Hours:

William G. Jacoby 102 Helen Newberry jacoby@msu.edu By Appointment

David Armstrong 319 Helen Newberry armstrod@uwm.edu By Appointment

This web site is an information resource for the "Measurement, Scaling, and Dimensional Analysis " Workshop (First Session, 2011 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research). Many of the materials on this site are stored in Portable Document Format (i.e., as "PDF files"). They can be read and printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click here to obtain the latest version of this software (it's free!). The contents of this site will evolve and expand as the course proceeds through the subject matter. Therefore, you should check it frequently for new material.

Teaching Assistant:

• David Ciuk. Click here for contact information.

Course Syllabus and Readings:

• Click here to obtain a copy of the course syllabus (PDF).
• Click here for day-by-day reading assignments.

Lectures:

• Click here for lecture outlines (where available).

Handouts:

• Click here for copies of course handouts.

Assignments:

• Click here for course assignments.

Computing Materials:

• Click here for R scripts, Stata Do files, datasets, and related materials.

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