Statistics for Social Sciences I: Introduction to Statistics

 

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Final project

In groups of up to 3 people, you should perform some descriptive statistical analysis (using Excel) of some data from one of the International Relations

 databases mentioned in the first class. You should provide a brief report (not more than 6 pages) outlining the results of your findings and their significance

in the IR context.


Notes, exercises & practicals

 

Week

Theory classes

Practical classes

Exercises

1

Chapter 1: Introduction and basic concepts

Practical 1: Introduction to statistical software

class questionnaire (.xlsx)

Exercises 1

Evaluated exercises 6, 8

2

Chapter 2: Analysis of univariate data (summary and graphical representations)

Practical 2: statistical graphs

questionnaire responses (.xlsx)

Exercises 2

Evaluated exercises 1, 2

3

Chapter 2: Analysis of univariate data (numerical summaries of data)

Practical 3: numerical summary of data

Exercises 3

Evaluated exercises 2,4

4

Chapter 3: Analysis of bivariate data (tabular and graphical representations,

covariance and correlation)

Practical 4: two way tables

Exercises 4

Evaluated exercises 8,9

5

Chapter 3: Analysis of bivariate data (correlation and regression)

Practical 5: regression

Exercises 5

Evaluated exercises 2,11

6

Chapter 3: Analysis of bivariate data (data that change over time)

Practical 6: time series analysis

Youtube video

An example of time series decomposition

Exercises 6

Evaluated exercise 6

7

Chapter 4: Probability and probability models (basic ideas)

Practical 7

Exercises 7

8

Chapter 4: Probability and probability models (discrete variables)

Test I

9

Chapter 4: Probability and probability models (continuous variables)

Practical 8/9 : distributions

Exercises 8 & 9

Evaluated exercises 2, 10

10

Chapter 5: Introduction to statistical inference: basic ideas

and confidence intervals

Practical 10: confidence intervals

Exercises 10

11

Chapter 5: Introduction to statistical inference: hypothesis tests

Practical 11: hypothesis tests

Exercises 11

12

Chapter 5: Introduction to statistical inference: testing for independence

Practical 12: testing for independence

Exercises 12

13

Revision class and exam preparation

Exercises 13

14

Revision class and exam preparation

Test II

Exercises 14

15

Recovery class

 

Databases

 

Countries by regime type (.xlsx) from Wikipedia

 

Exams from previous years

 

Final Exam from May 2015

Final exam from May 2016

Final exam from May 2017

 

 

Test examples from previous years

 

Test I example from 2015

Test I example from 2016

Test I example from 2017

Test I example from 2018

Test II example from 2015

Test II example from 2016

Test II example from 2017

 


Last change: 24th April 2018

 

emailmichael.wiper@uc3m.es (Michael P Wiper)