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PPE(C) statistical methods

This section of the paper involves the “application of the theory defined in Part A [of the paper] to social and political research, with reference to the problem of collection, analysis, and interpretation of data arising in the fields of electoral behaviour, social stratification, and comparative social policy.” My teaching, with Dr Chan, in Hilary Term (in HT 2001, on Thursdays, 10-11, Computing Room, DPIR) takes the form of a set of practical classes in which we give students the opportunity to explore the practical analysis of social science data. As Aristotle once remarked: ‘the things we must learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them’

Material

General course reading list
“Nations” codebook
“Nations” SPSS datafile — 115 variables on 111 nations c1980
Brown & Harris data in MicLog format
Dummy variables and interaction effects — overheads
Simple exercise on interactions
^^ Pending [more items available shortly]

(The text files are in PDF format)

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