Course modules --- History modules and Math/Stat modules
History modules:
- Introduction to the course
- Indiana in 1860: some hypotheses
- Indiana in 1860: more hypotheses
- Social and economic patterns of life in 1860 I
- Social and economic patterns of life in 1860 II
- Library research I: locating a primary scholarly article
- Library research II: locating related secondary information
- Format and foibles of essay/paper writing
Math/Stat modules:
- Introduction to Excel
- Some initial guesses about 1860 Indiana
- Sources of information: how reliable are they?
- Reliability and validity of variables
- Various types of errors
- Types of variables
- Historical information on the web
- Descriptive statistics of one variable
- Relationship between two variables
- Multivariate study of the census data
- Sampling distribution of the sample average
- Sampling distribution of the sample proportion
- Normal distributions
- Hypotheses testing: one group
- Hypotheses testing: two groups
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