Tom,

I've been using the SDA analysis system from berkeley with a lot of
success (sda.berkeley.edu).  If the planets align right, there is a good
chance that a textbook will come out in a year or two dedicated to
political science that integrates this explicitly into the materials.
For now, please email me directly, or go to http://www.reed.edu/~gronkep
and look at the listings under courses, "Political Science 210" to see
how I use this for the class.

Also, search for the IDEAAS system at the University of Denver.  They
have a whole set of online manuals that can serve as a sort of
introduction to both the system and to statistics, albeit at a purely
intuitive level.

The SDA system is the same program as the "DAS" system at ICPSR.  I
think the system is better than, say, MicroCase because the ramp up time
is so much lower.  The major negative is that they don't learn a program
like Stata, SPSS, etc.  But you can have them running analyses w/in 15
minutes.

Tom Holbrook wrote:
> I'm working on developing an on-line undergraduate data analysis course and
> was wondering if anyone has experience doing this.  I'd appreciate any tips
> concerning books and stats programs that might be particularly appropriate
> for the on-line course environment.   The in-class version of this course
> takes students from frequencies up through some elementary multiple
> regression.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
> Thomas M. Holbrook
> Wilder Crane Professor of Government
>
> Department of Political Science
> UW-Milwaukee
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