Getting Started in Data Analysis  Tags: anova data_analysis descriptive_statistics do_files dss econometrics excel factor_analysis mean median regression spss stata statistics data fixed_effects random_effects  

Data and Statistical Services (DSS) is a part of the Social Science Reference Center in Firestone Library at Princeton University. DSS offers resources and assistance in finding, using, and analyzing social science data

Find data by subject search. A&D provides an excellent gateway to macro level data (although some micro level sources are also found here)

Established in 1962, ICPSR is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. We acquire, preserve, and distribute original research data and provide training in its analysis. We also offer access to publications based on our data holdings.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infanc

WRDS provides instant access to important databases in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy.

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world and CPS. Its goals are to:
1) Collect and preserve data and documentation
2) Harmonize data and 3) Disseminate free data.

From the World Bank, macro data for more 150 countries

Each year the Human Development Report (HDR) presents a wealth of statistical information on different aspects of human development. All these data are available for download here in several different ways.

Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) consists of eight topically focused data archives, an online data analysis system, and teaching modules.

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. We have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968.

UTIP is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial change around the world.

The WVS is a worldwide network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life. The WVS has carried out representative national surveys in 97 societies containing almost 90 percent of the world’s population.

The Internet Center for Corruption Research provides you with the TI-Corruption Perceptions Index, a comparative assessment of countries' integrity performance, alongside with related academic research on corruption.

This site is primarily a self-guided tour through data analysis and some of the most used statistical and data management software on campus.

Topics include reading data in Stata, data management, frequencies, crosstabs, merging, graphs, regression and more!

A basic introduction on fixed and random effects models to analyze panel data.

Basic introduction to factor analysis

Procedures and tips on how to analyze public opinion data

Generic guide to find what you need for your research

Basic introduction to linear regression analysis (using Stata)

Introduction to logit and ordered logit regression

What to do first, exploring data, do-file, date and time variables, references

This section provides you with some basic definitions for data and its different types.

What are descriptive statistics? How to estimate them using Excel or Stata?

A series of links with annotated output for several models, testing and some econometric procedures.

Introduction to some general data sources and tips on how to start planning your research.

Introduction on how to set your data for analysis and how to get descriptive statistics using Excel and Stata.

Basics on how to run, define and interpret linear regression and time series output.

Introduction to panel data analysis

Introduction to multilevel analysis

Introduction to time series analysis

Written by G. David Garson, from North Carolina State University, Public Administration Program

"This Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material was developed at the StatSoft R&D department based on many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and covers a

Written by David W. Stockburger

Written by B.R. Asrabadi

"1) review iid assumption. 2) consequences of violation of iid. 3) types of violation of iid: e.g., (a) heteroskedasticity (b) serially correlated disturbances. 4) diagnosing non-iid disturbances (graphs and formal tests). 5) variance stabilizing transfor

"The presence of a significant interaction indicates that the effect of one predictor variable on the response variable is different at different values of the other predictor variable."

"Resampling methods allow us to quantify uncertainty by calculating standard errors and confidence intervals and performing significance tests. They require fewer assumptions than traditional methods and generally give more accurate answers (sometimes very much more accurate)."

"An (1-alpha) confidence interval for the mean is an interval (a, b) such that the mean of the population, µ, is inside it (i.e. a < µ < b) with (1-alpha) "confidence." The endpoints of the interval, a and b, take values that depend on the random sample selected the confidence interval also depends on the random sample selected."

"An intraclass correlation tells you about the correlation of the observations (cases) within a cluster."

On statistics

DSS staffing hours, walk-in service only from 2 to 5 pm from Nov 2 to Dec 18, sign-up preferred but service is on a first come, first serve basis.

The DSS lab is located in Firestone A16-H3