290107 UE Applied Statistical Data Analysis in Geography I, Group B (2010W)

1.50 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie

Continuous assessment of course work

DI 10.0-11.30 Ort: ZID Kursraum B NIG Erdgeschoß
Termine: 12.10.2010; 16./30.11.2010; 11./18./25.1.2011
Prüfung: 1.2.2011

Details

Language: German

Lecturers

Hartwig Hitz

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Students will learn how to use software packages to read census and survey data, recode and analyze variables, design and interpret tables, apply uni- and bivariate statistical and comparative techniques to test hypotheses, and assess the advantages and limitations inherent to positivistic research strategies of the kind carried out in this course. The primary objectives of this course are:

1. To introduce basic research design and data analysis methods.

2. To teach basic quantitative data analysis methods using the Statistical

Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) so that students can employ these

methods in their research.

3. To take students step-by-step through the design, analysis, composition,

presentation, and defense of a quantitative or comparative research project.

Assessment and permitted materials

Return all exercises, active cooperation, final examination.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The goal of this course is to apply quantitative and comparative analysis techniques through a set of hands-on exercises and projects. The course will impart the necessary skills in the process of carrying out actual analyses of real data sets.

Examination topics

The lessons are devided in two parts - a short introduction into the methodes and procedures of statistical dataanalysis and an extended practical example. The practical example is based either on a primary (students assessment) or a secundary dataset.

Reading list

Bahrenberg/Giese/Nipper (1999): Statistische Methoden in der Geographie. Band 1. Univariate und bivariate Statistik. 4., überarbeitete Aufl..Stuttgart, Leibzig.

Hartung, Joachim (1998): Statistik. Lehr- und Handbuch der angewandten Statistik. 11., durchgesehene Aufl.. München.

Brosius, Felix (2006): SPSS 14. 1. Auflage

Association in the course directory

(B6.4)

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