Applied Social Statistics

This course covers applied statistical data analysis with continuous and categorical variables. The emphasis will be on regular OLS analysis and how this can be used to examine various relationships between dependent variables (Y) and a set of continuous explanatory variables (X). The students are also introduced to logit regression and other techniques applied when Y is a categorical variable.

Knowledge - the student shall:

• be able to read academic literature in the social sciences where regression models are used with critical insights in the context of modeling assumptions and analysis results.

Skills - the student shall demonstrate the ability to:

• carry out analyses with the help of the analytical models in which they received instruction.

Lectures/seminars/assignments equivalent to 6 hours pr week.