• Advice on how to write references to literature cited in a term paper or article.

• Advice on how to write articles for a journal.

Fall 2009
Documents for SOS3003 Applied statistical data analysis for the social sciences

Class starting Friday 28 August 12:15 in seminar room D150

• Reading list and time schedules.


• Reading list: Hamilton 2008 "Low-Tech Causal Modeling"


• Requirements for the term paper (semesteroppgåve) and some advice on how to do it.


• More on writing term paper (semesteroppgåve)


• Even more on writing term papers (semesteroppgåve)


• Registration procedure for dependent variable. Registration starts Friday 11 September at 14:15


• Term paper: dependent variables allocated as of 7 October


• Correct calculator for examinations at NTNU


• Permitted helpful materials in the examination

Lecture notes:
NB Alternativt til det som følgjer finst: Forelesingsnotat fra hausten 2004 på norsk

Lecture notes in English:

28 August and 4 September
Some notes on the mathematics used in class (in Norwegian)
Lecture notes 01: on Hamilton Ch 1-2

11 September
A short note on the symbols used in regression literature
Lecture notes 02: on Hamilton Ch 2-3

18 September
Lecture notes 03: Causal modelling. Principal components and factor analysis
Seminar notes 03: Why logistic regression?

25 September
Lecture notes 04: Missing data

2 October
Lecture notes 05: Regression criticism I
Seminar discussion. Examination questions spring 2004
Seminar discussion. Examination questions spring 2004. Proposed solutions

9 October
Lecture notes 06: Regression criticism II
Lecture notes 07: Logistic regression I
Seminar discussion. Examination questions fall 2001
Seminar discussion. Examination questions fall 2001. Proposed solutions

16 October
Lecture notes 08: Fitting Curves
Lecture notes 09: Robust Regression
Seminar discussion. Examination questions fall 2004
Seminar discussion. Examination questions fall 2004. Proposed solutions

23 October
Lecture notes 10: Logistic regression II
Seminar discussion. Examination questions spring 2004
Seminar discussion. Examination questions spring 2004. Proposed solutions

30 October
Lecture notes 11: Logistic regression III
Seminar discussion. Examination questions fall 2001: Question 3
Seminar discussion. Examination questions fall 2001. Proposed solutions

6 November
No lecture

13 and 20 November
A short note on testing for curvilinear relations
Repeating basics. Discussing examination questions
SOS3003: Collected lecture notes 2009 - (271 pages)
Seminar discussion. Examination questions spring 2001
Seminar discussion. Examination questions spring 2001. Proposed solutions

1 December
Examination questions fall 2009
Examination questions fall 2009. Proposed solutions