Politics G53.1120 Professor Youssef Cohen
New York University
Intro to Quantitative Political Analysis I
Description
This course introduces students to probability theory and statistics, which are necessary to the study of regression techniques and their application in the social sciences. The course is required for students intending to take Quantitative Political Analysis II.
Requirements
Students will be graded on the basis of a set of homework assignments, a midterm and a final exam.
Texts
Thomas H. And Ronald J. Wonnacott, Introductory Statistics for Business and Economics (Fourth Edition, 1990)
Lawrence C. Hamilton, Statistics with STATA 5 (Duxbury Press, 1998)
COURSE OUTLINE
September 9
Intro to Statistics
September 23
Frequency Distributions
Measures of Central Tendency
Wonnacott and Wonnacott, Chapter 2
September 30
Contingency Tables
Class Notes
October 7
Introduction to Probability
Wonnacot and Wonnacott, Chapter3
October 14
Probability Distributions
Wonnacott and Wonnacott, Chapters 3 & 4
October 21
Probability Distributions
Wonnacott and Wonnacott, Chapter 4
October 28
Bivariate Distributions
Wonnacott and Wonnacott, Chapter 5
November 4
Midterm Exam
November 11
Bivariate Dist: Covariance and Correlation
Wonnacott and Wonnacott, Chapters 5 and 15
November 18
Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Wonnacott and Wonnacott, Chapter 6
November 25
Confidence Intervals
Wonnacott and Wonnacott, Chapter 8
December 2
Hypothesis Testing
Wonnacott and Wonnacott, Chapter 9
December 9
Hypothesis Testing and Intro to Regression
Wonnacott and Wonnacott, Chapters 9, 11 and 12