Class Detail

Overview and basic training in statistical programs used in the economics major. Introduces students to basic data analysis workflow. A workflow of data analysis is a process for managing all aspects of data analysis. Planning, documenting, and organizing work; cleaning the data; creating, renaming, and verifying variables; creating summary statistics; and archiving what has been done are all integral parts of students' data analysis. This is an online asynchronous lab, with synchronous office hours/question and answer sessions. Prerequisites: concurrent enrollment in STAT 17; and score of 300 or higher on (MPE), or AM 3 or AM 11A. MATH 3 or MATH 11A strongly recommended. Declared and proposed majors in one of the economics programs who are transferring in a course equivalent to STAT 17, should contact the Economics Department to petition for an exception to the concurrent enrollment requirement.

Prerequisites: A score of 300 or higher on (MPE), or completion of AM 3 or AM 11A or MATH 3 or MATH 11A or MATH 19A. See economics department to petition for exceptions to concurrent enrollment restriction.

From the Instructor: Students need to go to stata.com and rent the software STATA18 BE ($48 - 6 month rental). Please note that STATA is NOT compatible with chromebook. Make sure that you download STATA before the classes start. Please download STATA in your local C Drive - not in One Drive, not in Cloud etc. You can find STATA on UCSC computers at McHenry and Science & Engineering Libraries Windows Software (ucsc.edu)
Wait list the lab section first. You cannot enroll in the STAT 17 lecture until you have successfully been enrolled in the co-requisite lab section. Enroll in the lecture portion of the course after you are enrolled in the lab.

Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
W 10:30AM-12:30PM	Remote Instruction	Saha,S.	07/29/24 - 08/30/24