OpenIntro Statistics notes

Notes on the lectures from the course (2023) Statistics 2. Includes all lectures and readings

This course is intended to introduce students without prior training to the use of quantitative methods in the social sciences. The course introduces students to basic statistics: how to summarise large amounts of information efficiently and how to draw basic inferences. As political scientists, we are interested in answering questions such as “What is the association between country size and civil war?”. To answer such questions, we require 1) data and 2) methods and techniques to process s...

Notes on the lectures from the course (2023) Statistics 2. Includes all lectures and readings

This course is intended to introduce students without prior training to the use of quantitative methods in the social sciences. The course introduces students to basic statistics: how to summarise large amounts of information efficiently and how to draw basic inferences. As political scientists, we are interested in answering questions such as “What is the association between country size and civil war?”. To answer such questions, we require 1) data and 2) methods and techniques to process s...