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Master's Thesis Seminar II

Class at Faculty of Social Sciences |
JPM737

Syllabus

Generally, we will discuss several key topics of quantitative research. Further we will focus on the possibility of intercommunication between quantitative and qualitative research.

1) Intro + organisation

2) Univariate statistics (Modus, Median, Mean, Standard Deviation) Using excel for visualization of data

3) Probability distributions, Normal Curve, z-scores

4) Statistical inference I.  - sampling - samples and populations - hypothesis testing - estimating population parameters

5) Bivariate statistics I.  - t-test, chi-test, F-test

6) Bivariate statistics II. -correlation (Pearson vs. Spearmen) - visualization (in excell/R)

7) Bivariate Regression I. - assumptions + limits - interpreting coeficcients (b0, b1, R2 etc.)

8) Bivariate regression II. - residuals (heteroscedasticity/homoscedasticity)

9) Multivariate regression

10) Causal inference -------------------------

11) project presentatins I.

12) project presentations II.