Quantitative Political Methodology

POLITICAL SCIENCE 363

This is an introduction to research methodology and quantitative analysis for social scientists. Students will be introduced to the logic of social scientific inquiry, and to the basic statistical tools used to study politics. Students will learn and apply the following to answer substantive questions: measurement, descriptive analysis, correlation, graphical analysis, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, analysis of variance, and regression analysis. Major components of the course include learning how to collect, manage, and analyze data using computer software, and how to effectively communicate to others results from statistical analyses. Students will work collaboratively on research projects where they pose their own questions, design a study, collect and analyze the data, and present their findings in a research paper. Note: This course counts towards the undergraduate Political Methodology subfield.
Course Attributes: EN S; AS SSC; AS AN; FA SSC; AR SSC

Section 01

Quantitative Political Methodology
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Section A

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Section B

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Section C

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Section D

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