36-303: Sampling, Surveys and Society
Spring 2012

Instructor:			Teaching Assistants:
Brian Junker, Statistics	Michael Vespe x7169, mvespe@andrew.cmu.edu
132E Baker Hall		        Bronwyn Woods x9922, bwoods@cmu.edu
268-8874			
brian@stat.cmu.edu		                     

Office Hours:			Office Hours:
right after class,              Mon 4-5pm or so...
or by appointment               Statistics Tutoring Room
                                FMS Building, Room 320
                                (or by appointment)


This course meets T Th 3:00 - 4:20 in SH 219  

Required Text [purchase before first class]:

  Groves, R.M., Fowler, F. J. Jr., Couper, M. P., Lepkowski, J.M.,
  Singer, E. and Tourangeau, R. (2009).  Survey Methodology, SECOND
  EDITION (paperback). New York: Wiley. ISBN: 978-0-470-46546 

If you are interested in other aspects of survey design, sampling and
analysis, you might want to consult these books:

  Converse, J. M. & Presser, S. (1986). Survey Questions:
  Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire (paperback).  Sage
  Publications Inc. ISBN: 978-0803927438. ($14.42 at Amazon.com)

  Kalton, G. (1983). Introduction to Survey Sampling
  (paperback).  Sage Publications, Inc. ISBN:
  978-0803921269. ($16.61 at Amazon.com)

  Lohr, S. (2009). Sampling: Design And Analysis. 2nd
  (hardcover). Duxbury Press. ISBN: 978-0495105275.

If you use gmail (especially if you forward andrew mail to gmail) PLEASE
add a filter in gmail [under the 'settings' menu] preventing email 
from stat.cmu.edu from going in your spam folder.  I will occasionally 
send email from my statistics account, and you need to be able to read 
and respond to it.

Here is some general information about the class:

 Course Syllabus
 Tentative Schedule of Topics


 Schedule of Activities and Due-Dates for Projects
 Some Ideas for Projects
 Examples of Project Proposals
 Team Working Agreement Assignment


 IRB Application.  
If your project involves people as respondents (whether 
they are on campus or off), please fill out *completely* 
and attach all relevant materials.  Submit to me (on paper, 
in class, not Blackboard) Thu Mar 08.


  UPDATED PROJECT SCHEDULE THROUGH SPRING BREAK


 List of Members for each Project Team


 Here are pdf and msword versions of the group 
evaluation forms.  Use a separate form for 
each member of your group (except yourself!).

There is also a blackboard site for this class.

Each week I will try to put links to weekly course materials (lecture
notes, homework assignments, etc.), here:

   week01 


   week02  Homework 01 Due Jan 31 ("Turnitin" on Blackboard)
           Project Assignment I.1 is also due Jan 31 ("Turnitin" on Blackboard)

   week03  Homework 02 Due Feb 9 ("Turnitin" on Blackboard)
           Project Assignment I.2 is also due Feb 9 ("Turnitin" on Blackboard)
 
           [note changed due date, due to webserver problems etc]

   week04  Homework 03 Due Tue Feb 14 on Blackboard
           Project Assignment I.3 is due Thu Feb 16 on Blackboard
           Please wait for my feedback on I.2 before finishing I.3.

   week05  Homework 04 Due Tues Feb 21
           Project Assignment II.4 due Thu Mar 01
           Team Working Agreement due Thu Mar 01
           IRB due Thu Mar 08
 
   week06 


   week07 


   week08 


   week09 hw05 Due Fri Apr 6 on Blackboard.

           Guides to writing and presentations, and some 
           examples of varying quality of 303 final papers.

   week10 (pdf's of slide presentations)

   week11 hw06 Due Thu Apr 12 on Blackboard. 

   week12

   week13

   week14

   week15 (includes presentations)

   Final Papers!

see you at MoM!

...and, have a great summer!

-BJ