Winter 2012 – Quant Methods for Lawyers

Winter 2012 Quantitative Methods for Lawyers Course
Professor Daniel Martin Katz
Michigan State University – College of Law

(1) Office Hours :  3:15-4:15 Monday/Wednesday  in  230F Law College Building (or by Appt.)

(2) Syllabus for Winter 2012 – Quantitative Methods for Lawyers Course (V 1.03 ) UPDATED 2/18/12

(3) Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and The Great Transformation of the Market for Legal Services (Class #1)

(4)  Welcome to Law’s Information Revolution  (Revolution Already in Progress) (Class #2)

(5)  Introduction to Probability & Basic Statistics  (Part 1)  (Class #3)

(6)  Introduction to Probability & Basic Statistics  (Part 2)  (Class #4)

(7) Introduction to Probability & Basic Statistics  (Part 3)  (Class #5)

(8) Bayes Rule, Thinking Empirically and Research Design (Class #6)

(9) Experimental Data, Surveys & Sampling (Class #7)

(10) Sampling (Cont.), Skewness, Kurtosis & Data Distributions (Class #8)

(11) Binomial, Normal and Power Law Distributions (Class #9)

(12) Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Significance (Class #10)

(13) Chi Square Analysis (Class #11)

(14) Problem Set #1  – Due February 29, 2012 @ Noon 

(15) Students “t” Distribution and Introduction to Stata (Class #12)

(16) T Statistic, F Statistic and More STATA (Class #13)