They enable the user to draw inferences about the behavior that generated them and to use those inferences to predict and make judgments about that behavior. In this course, I stress the ability to understand statistical concepts, to present statistical results in a useful fashion and to reason statistically. Basic concepts of probability are an essential underpinning to this ability.
Discrimination provides a final range of examples on which to apply the concepts already studied.
Clippings from newspapers, magazines and government documents. The project is central to the course and must be chosen by the student group and approved by the professor. He has taught at Yale and Princeton, and for many years at Michigan State University before coming to UT in 1993. He has been teaching in Plan II since 1995. Princeton University Press published his magnum opus, Labor Demand, in 1993.