Syllabus
* Structure of Lessons:
1. Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis.
2. Basics of quantitative research - mass data, selection of units, measuring, hypotheses, secondary analysis.
3. Validity and reliability, creation of on-line questionnaire.
4. Introduction to SPSS, basic functions.
5. Basic rules to forming questionnaires, types of questions, their coding in SPSS.
6. Working with mass data before analysis.
7. Basics of one-dimensional analysis.
8. Normal distribution.
9. Standardized normal distribution.
10. Statistical inference a testing of hypotheses.
11. Transformation of variables I (recode).
12. Transformation of variables II.
13. Conclusion. * Required reading: - BRYMAN, A. Social research methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2008. ISBN
0199202958. * Recommended reading: - BABBIE, E. Elementary analyses. In The Practice of social Research. 7th Edition. Belmont: Wadsworth,
1995. Pp. 375-394. ISBN 0-534-18744-7. - De VAUS, D. A. Surveys in social research. Fifth edition. London: Routledge.
2002. (chapters 10, 12 to
16) - GARSON, G. D. Quantitative Research in Public Administration (PA 765 -
766). - IBM SPSS Statistics 20 Brief Guide. [online]. IBM Corporation 1989,
2011. Available at: - ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/documentation/statistics/20.0/en/client/Manuals/IBM_SPSS_Statistics_Brief_Guide.pdf - IBM SPSS Statistics Base
20. [online]. IBM Corporation 1989,
2011. Available at: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/documentation/statistics/20.0/en/client/Manuals/IBM_SPSS_Statistics_Base.pdf. (chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7) - MILLER, J. E. The Chicago guide to writing about numbers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2004. (selected chapters) - STATSOFT, Inc. Electronic Statistics Textbook. Tulsa, OK: StatSoft,
2010. - TREIMAN, D. J. Quantitative data analysis: doing social research to test ideas. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
2009. ISBN
780470380031.