The first will be on Wednesdays for two hours, the second on Fridays for one hour. The Wednesday meetings will be interactive lectures and the Friday sessions will be devoted to working through problem sets and dealing with problems that students encounter with the week's material. As in Quantitative Methods I, the statistical package Stata 6.0 will be used for all exercises. This is not strictly required, since you may use any program you wish as long as the results are correct, although only Stata will be supported. Copies of this program are installed on most of the Macintoshes and Windows-based PCs in the postgraduate computing room.
Manuals are also available there.
Grading will be based on three components. Problem sets will be handed out each Monday and must be returned by the following Monday. Each problem set will consist of a number of problems combining computer analysis with interpretation and analytical problems. Problem sets answers must be neatly organized and clearly presented. Computer output, when supplied, should include both the commands used as well as results.