Soc. 113 Assignment
CORRELATION, REGRESSION, AND SCATTERPLOTS

Now that you have completed the preliminaries -- selected your
variables, downloaded them to your floppy, converted the raw text
file to a Stata-format .dta file, checked the frequencies against
those shown in the GSS codebook, and done the missing data
recoding -- you are ready to study the relationships among the
variables you selected, and to write up your results.
 
In this assignment you will:
	-perform bivariate analyses of your variables, using the
STATA procedures graph, correlate, and pwcorr.
	-select one of your variables as the "dependent" and
perform several regressions, each time using the regress
procedure to regress the dependent on one independent variable.
	-perform multiple regression, also using the regress
procedure, this time with more than one independent variable.
	-graph residuals and inspect for nonlinearity and
outliers.
	-prepare a report of your findings.	
 
The main part of the report should consist primarily of words,
sentences, and paragraphs, and be 10 or fewer pages in length.
The report should also contain several selected tables and graphs
from your stata output, that you discuss in the text. 

Your report should generally describe what was learned from your 
analyses.  Were the variables related as you had hypothesized? 
(State how you know that.)  How strong were the relationships? 
(Again, state how you know that.)  Did you find any evidence of 
nonlinearity?  How about outliers?  

Your report should be on 8.5 x 11 white paper, stapled in the 
upper left corner.  The first page should have your name, FAMILY 
NAME FIRST, in the upper right corner.  

Put each table or graph on a separate 8.5 x 11 page and label
them "Table 1", "Table 2", "Figure 1", etc., and refer to them
that way in the text. Each page containing a figure or table is
to be inserted next to the text page on which it is discussed,
rather than at the end of the document.  

Appended to the report should be the complete log and output from
your computer job, and a set of copies of codebook pages for your
variables.

Make two copies of the report and appendix, turning in one set,
keeping the other set.

The report is to be turned in during the last lecture session of 
the course.