Welcome!

This is the website for BA 762: Research Methods, an in-person Ph.D. course taught each Fall by Steve Borgatti at the University of Kentucky.

This course is about doing social science research. While we discuss epistemological issues, the focus is on practical matters: how to do it. Skills covered include theorizing, study design, measurement, exploratory data analysis, text analysis and hypothesis testing. The format is a combination of lecture, playing with data (bring your laptop), question and answer, discussion of readings, etc. 

For detailed information on the course, including timing and location, see the syllabus and the schedule.

The short name for this url is: https://tinyurl.com/BA-762RM

Reference materials for this course, including datasets, handouts, and readings, can be found on the reference page.

Please note this site replaces http://www.analytictech.com/ba762/ which is long obsolete.