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POL S 411

Quantitative Political Analysis

3 units

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Introduction; asking questions and telling stories with data; Intro to Stata
  • Research design, causality and experiments
  • Kellstedt and Whitten (2013)
  • Pollock (2015)
  • Inference 2
  • Data visualisation
  • Linear regression
  • Multiple regression 1
  • Multiple regression 2
  • Multiple regression 3
  • Bringing it all together
  • Explain the complexity of contemporary politics from the perspective of solid research design and empirical analysis
  • Apply a range of basic descriptive and inferential quantitative techniques to analyse political phenomena
  • Apply methodological concepts and techniques, and properly explain their application to an academic audience
Fall 2023

Topics

  • Introduction; asking questions and telling stories with data; Intro to Stata
  • Barakso et al. (2013)
  • Kellstedt and Whitten (2013)
  • Inference 1
  • Inference 2
  • Data visualisation
  • Linear regression
  • Multiple regression 1
  • Multiple regression 2
  • Multiple regression 3
  • Bringing it all together
  • Explain the complexity of contemporary politics from the perspective of solid research design and empirical analysis
  • Apply a range of basic descriptive and inferential quantitative techniques to analyse political phenomena
  • Apply methodological concepts and techniques, and properly explain their application to an academic audience
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