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Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences — Spring 2024

Course materials for Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, taught by Paul Max Love III at NYU Abu Dhabi in Spring 2024.
Published

3 November 2026

Course materials for Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, taught by Paul Max Love III at NYU Abu Dhabi in Spring 2024.

Stata Study Tips

Week 2

2024-02-02

Questions for Dataset

  • What’s the average population of France?
  • What’s the average employment rate in France between the years 2010 and 2015, including both?
  • What’s the average employment rate in India between the years 2010 and 2015, including both?
  • What is the average TFP (total factor productivity) across all countries in 2016?
  • What was the median TFP across all countries in 2016?
  • What can you assume about the shape of the distribution of the TFP in 2016 based on its median and the average?
  • What is the average employment rate across all countries in 2016?
  • What’s the median employment rate across all countries in 2016?
  • What is the maximum population size in 2010?

Excerpted from Tetyana Surovtseva

Week 5

Recitation materials

Recitation materials folder — Archived: Google Drive folder, available upon request.