36-303: Sampling, Surveys and Society
Spring 2010

Instructor:			Teaching Assistant:
Brian Junker, Statistics	Jionglin Wu, Statistics
132E Baker Hall			FMS 328B
268-8874			268-1889 
brian@stat.cmu.edu		jionglin@stat.cmu.edu

Office Hours:			Office Hours:
right after class,              M: 2:30-3:30pm, W: 10-11am
or by appointment               Statistics Tutoring Room
                                FMS Building
                                (or by appointment)


This course meets T Th 3:00 - 4:20 in BH A53.

Required Text [purchase before first class]:

  Groves, R. M., Fowler, F. J. Jr., Couper, M. P., Lepkowski,
  J. M., Singer, E. and Tourangeau, R. (2004). Survey
  Methodology (paperback).  New York: Wiley.  ISBN:
  978-0471483489. ($58.10 at Amazon.com) 

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. (1999).  Sampling: Design And Analysis. (hardcover).
  Duxbury Press.  ISBN: 978-0534353612. ($143.00 at Amazon.com)

A syllabus can be found here.  

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  hw01 
   week03  hw02 
   week04 
   week05  twa IRB Revised Team Project Schedule
   week06  exam1
   week07 
   week08 
   week09  hw03 Peer Evaluations Due Tue Mar 23
   week10  hw04

   Robert M. Groves (Director of Census) visiting March 25.
   12-1pm Public presentation, McConomy Hall, UC.
   1-2pm  Reception for/with students, UC.
   2-3pm  Media availability.
   3-330  Q&A in 36-303 before departure for airport.

   week11 
   week12 

   Progress Report Talks: Apr 1, 6, 8 -- see Lecture 20, Week 10 for details
     Information on Giving Talks:   Hill Paper, and On Giving Talks

   Rough Draft of Papers Due: Apr 8 -- see Lecture 20, Week 10 for details
     Information on Writing Papers: Bem Paper, and On Writing

   week13 

   Robert Kraut & Moira Burke will visit class April 20
   Kraut is CMU's Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer 
   Interaction; Burke is a PhD student in the Human-Computer
   Interaction Institute at CMU. 

   They are doing survey research on the question, "Which
   communications events improve Facebook users' `social capital' [the
   network of people you rely on to improve your own productivity]?"

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need
additional information.

-BJ