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His research focuses on political methodology and the role of migration in politics. Marbach received his Ph. Over the last years, he has taught various courses in political methodology and international relations. We will focus on the following topics: The course combines a theoretical introduction to each topic with lab sessions in which students perform replications of published work in Economics and Political Science using STATA.
Students are encouraged to bring their own data sets and present their research projects and empirical analyses throughout the course. Students will develop a deeper understanding of the statistical problems that arise in applied research. It will give participants the skills to i Make sensible choices about which data to collect; ii Select an appropriate estimator for their estimands and the data at hand; iii Precisely state the assumptions on which estimates are based; and iv Conduct sensible, robust inferences and interpret their estimates accurately.
Students will gain competence in using common statistical tests and computer-based tools such as SPSS to be able to conduct and report quantitative research from an applied perspective. In this course, you will access health-related websites worldwide.
You will also participate in email and computer conferencing with other students. Students are expected to connect to an Internet Service Provider at their own expense. In order to successfully complete this course, you must own or have ready access to certain computer hardware and software programs. For complete and up-to-date information on the minimum computer requirements required to complete the graduate nursing courses, visit the Centre for Nursing and Health Studies technical site.
Advanced Quantitative Methods for Health Research: Beginnings Statistical analysis of data flows from your research question and hypotheses. Therefore, in this unit, we will revisit some basic research concepts, including research problems, types of variables and values coding of variables. In Unit 2 the process of creating a data file and entering data is described.
Data Checking and Descriptive Statistics Descriptive statistics are useful for describing the sample and for determining, later on, the extent to which the sample represents the population. In this unit, we will use the descriptive statistics functions in SPSS to check our data for errors, plot a histogram that will show us how the data are distributed and calculate standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis to describe the distribution. Describing the Data with Figures and Tables SPSS can be used to generate tables that can be used for presentations, reports and manuscripts.
There is an unlimited number of ways to present your data in SPSS, customizing tables and figures for your needs. This unit will explore approaches to presenting your data. Practical Significance This unit is concerned with testing differences between groups such as an intervention group and a control group using SPSS.
In previous statistics courses you probably calculated independent t-tests, paired t-tests, and perhaps one-way ANOVAs. We will calculate these statistics, and more, using SPSS. Effect Sizes Unit 6 discusses effect sizes, statistics used to describe the strength of relationships among variables.
Effect sizes are becoming increasingly important in the interpretation of research studies. It is no longer sufficient to report that Group A did better than Group B; we need to know how much better. Correlation and Regression Unit 7 discusses correlation and regression.
For complete and up-to-date information on the minimum computer requirements required to complete the graduate nursing courses, visit the Centre for Nursing and Health Studies technical site. Best of all, it's free. The course builds on the introductory level of statistics and probability theory and introduces students to concepts and techniques essential to the analysis of modern social science data. Stars are assigned as follows:. The following course activities will contribute to your course grade, with the percentage weighting of each activity as follows: Funding can be used.
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