POLS 2470 Intro to Political Science Research
POLS 2470 Intro to Political Science Research
Statistical literacy is becoming more and more important for understanding social phenomena today. Statistics are everywhere in the news we see every day, the articles we read, and the speeches politicians or government officers make. This class is designed to provide basic knowledge to understand and decipher statistical information. By completing this course, students will be knowledgeable about statistical analysis and have some basic skills to conduct basic data analysis. I will provide a step-by-step learning module to achieve that goal. All errors are mine.
- Class 1: Welcome to Political Research
- POLS BA explained & [POLSBA] mini quiz (BB)
- Class 2: Research Designs in Social Sciences
- Class 3: Primers of Statistics - chapter quiz 1 (BB)
- Class 4: Sampling Bias & Error
- Class 5: Sampling Distribution [STATA Simulation dofile]
- Class 6: Central Limit Theorem [STATA Simulation dofile]
- Class 7: Frequency Distribution
- Class 8: Central Tendency
- Class 9: Measurements of Variability
- Class 10: Normal Distribution & Z-score 1
- Class 11: Sampling Distribution & Z-score 2
- Class 12: Hypothesis Testing & 95% Confidence Interval
- Class 13: Z-test [Z-table]
- Class 14: One Sample T-test [T-table]
- Class 15: Difference in Means Test
- Class 16: Paired Sample T-test
- Class 17: Chi2 Test of Independence [Chi-2 Table]
- Class 18: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) [F-table]
- Class 19: Correlation Analysis
- Class 20: Bivariate Regression Analysis 1 & 2
- Class 21: Multiple Regression Analysis
- Class 22: Coefficient of Determination
- Class 23: Regression & Dummy Variables
- Final Exam: Class 12 - Class24
- Module 1: Accessing STATA via UTRGV VLabs [Web Instruction]
- Module 2: Working directory & log file. [STATA lab 2 do-file]
- Module 3: Data structure & cleaning [STATA lab 3 do-file]
- Module 4: Frequency distribution [STATA lab 4 do-file]
- Module 5: Web-DATA How to put HTML data into STATA? [Web Data Instruction][STATA lab 5 do-file]
- Module 6: Z-score [ID dofile][STATA lab 6 do-file]
- Module 7: Z-test & STATA MAP [US Shapefile] [STATA lab7 do-file][Lab_Data][shp1][shp2][shp3][shp4][lab7_instruction.dta][Cleaning.do]
- Module 8: T-tests [STATA lab 8 do-file][Cleaning]
- Module 9: Chi2 & ANOVA [STATA lab 9 do-file] [webdata5]
- Module 10: Correlation Analysis [STATA lab 10 do-file][Data]
- Module 11: Regression Analysis & Table Making [STATA lab 11 do-file][Mendeley data][County Shapefiles]
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