Instructional Materials

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Title	Author	Type of Material	Creative Commons License	Post Date	Rating	Views	Tags
Critique quantitative research design and methods of articles	Michelle Dion Michelle Dion	Problem Set	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2010-12-15	3	1,076
Difference of means and proportions course module	Michelle Dion Michelle Dion	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-01-18	4.5	554	means, notes, proportion, slides
Applied Statistics for Public Policy syllabus (MA level)	Michelle Dion Michelle Dion	Problem Set Syllabus Dataset	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-01-18	4.666665	1,110	applied, Canada, graduate, syllabus
Sampling	Craig L. Brians Craig Leonard Brians	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-01-31	0	373	census, Central Limit Theorem, sample, sample bias, sample error
Sampling	Craig L. Brians Craig Leonard Brians	Problem Set	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-01-31	0	307
Political Analysis syllabus	Whitt Kilburn Whitt Kilburn	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-04	5	341
Measurement Lecture Notes	Cameron Thies Cameron Thies	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-04	0	362	levels of measurement, measurement, reliability, validity
Measurement PowerPoint Slides	Cameron Thies Cameron Thies	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-04	4	515	levels of measurement, measurement, reliability, validity
Introduction to Probability	Dave Amp daveamp	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-04	0	599	examples, Lecture slides, probability
Univariate Data Visualization	Whitt Kilburn Whitt Kilburn	Lecture Notes and Slides Problem Set	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-02-05	5	397	American National Election Studies, ANES, box-whiskers plot, histogram, univariate data visualization
ANOVA Module	James Garand pogara@lsu.edu	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-06	0	365	Analysis of variance, ANOVA, difference in multiple means, F test
Bivariate OLS regression module	James Garand pogara@lsu.edu	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-06	0	1,249	goodness of fit, linear model, OLS regression, slope and intercept coefficients
Univariate Data Analysis Slides	Shane Nordyke Shane Nordyke	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-06	4.5	472	central tendency, empirical rule, standard deviation, Univariate data analysis
Causality	Thomas C. Ellington Thomas C. Ellington	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-02-09	5	479	causality
Introduction to Quantitative Political Science	Robi Ragan robi.ragan	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-10	4	863
Ethical Conduct of Human Subjects Research	Whitt Kilburn Whitt Kilburn	Lecture Notes and Slides Problem Set Class Activities	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-02-10	0	382	ethics, human subjects research
Research Methods in the Social Sciences	Chris Lawrence Chris Lawrence	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-02-12	0	1,065	political science, Pollock, research methods, sociology, syllabus, undergraduate
Social Inquiry	Chris Lawrence Chris Lawrence	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-02-12	0	390	political science, public administration, research design, Singleton, sociology, Straits, syllabus
Advanced Quantitative Methods	Chris Lawrence Chris Lawrence	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-02-12	5	530	Berman, logistic regression, political science, public administration, quantitative methods, regression, sociology, syllabus
Plagiarism (and How to Avoid It)	Chris Lawrence Chris Lawrence	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-03-29	3	386	academic misconduct, cheating, handout, plagarism
Writing Literature Reviews	Chris Lawrence Chris Lawrence	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-03-29	0	397	handout, literature review, writing
Crosstabulation	Renan Levine RenanLevine	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-05-21	0	381	association, bivariate analysis, chi-square, Contingency table, cross-tab, cross-tabulation, crosstabulation
Univariate Statistics	Renan Levine RenanLevine	Problem Set	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-05-21	0	348	levels of measurement, mean, median, mode, recoding, skewness
Crosstabulation problem set	Renan Levine RenanLevine	Problem Set	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-05-22	0	320	association, chi-square, Contingency table, cross-tab, cross-tabulation
Regression: Dummy Variables	Renan Levine RenanLevine	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-05-29	4	413	dummies, Dummy variables, independent variables, nominal variables, Regression analysis