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210007 VO BAK4.2 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research (2012W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft
Moodle

Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 11.10. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 18.10. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 25.10. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 08.11. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 15.11. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 22.11. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 29.11. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 06.12. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 13.12. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 10.01. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 17.01. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 24.01. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 31.01. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

theoretical basics: ontological and epistemological positions; empirical research designs; positioning quantitative methods
data collection:Who: populations and samples; What: measurement and its quality, questions and questionnaires; How: modes of data collection
data analysis: describing one variable: measures of position and variation, graphical methods; describing two variables: crosstabs and measures of association, covariance and correlation, graphical methods; statistical estimators and tests: point and intervall estimators, priciples of statistical testing, t-test, Chi2-Test

Assessment and permitted materials

written exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Vortrag

Reading list

textbooks:
Gehring, Uwe and Cornelia Weins. 2009. Grundkurs Statistik für Politologen und Soziologen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Hackl, P., Katzenbeisser, W., 2000. Statistik für Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Lehrbuch mit Übungsaufgaben. München, Wien: Oldenburg
Kühnel, S.-M., Krebs, D, 2001. Statistik für die Sozialwissenschaften. Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen. Reinbeck bei Hamburg: rororo

reference books:
Bortz, J., Schuster, C., 2010. Statistik für Human- und Sozialwissenschafter, 7. ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer
Hartung, J., Elpelt, B., Klösener, K.-H., 2009. Statistik. Lehr- und Handbuch der angewandten Statistik. 15. ed., München: Oldenburg

further reading:
Behnke, J., Baur, N., Behnke, N., 2006. Empirische Methoden der Politikwissenschaft. Paderborn, München, Wien, Zürich: Schöningh
Black, T.R., 2009. Doing Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences. An Integrated Approach to Research Design, Measurement and Statistics. Los Angeles, London, New Dehli, Singapore, Washington DC: Sage
Moses, J., Knutsen, T., 2012. Way of Knowing. Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research. 2nd ed., New York: Palgrave Macmillan

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