Analysis of Political Data II

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Building on the skills introduced in GOVT 201, this course will continue to develop students' capacity to analyze political and social data by covering a variety of statistical techniques. This course will extend the introduction to regression analysis and causal inference begun in GOVT 201, and it will also consider other statistical methods and data structures. The emphasis of this course will be on causal inference, and on the conditions under which a statistical relationship can properly be considered causal.