Instructional Materials

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Title	Author	Type of Material	Creative Commons License	Post Date	Rating	Views	Tags
Bivariate OLS regression module	James Garand pogara@lsu.edu	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-06	0	1,258	goodness of fit, linear model, OLS regression, slope and intercept coefficients
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	1,120	applied, Canada, graduate, syllabus
Research Methods in the Social Sciences	Chris Lawrence Chris Lawrence	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-02-12	0	1,084	political science, Pollock, research methods, sociology, syllabus, undergraduate
Critique quantitative research design and methods of articles	Michelle Dion Michelle Dion	Problem Set	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2010-12-15	3	1,082
Introduction to SPSS: Homework Assignment	Scott Huffmon Scott Huffmon	Class Activities	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-07-09	4	951	SPSS
Introduction to Quantitative Political Science	Robi Ragan robi.ragan	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-10	4	870
Introducing the Literature Grid: Helping Students and Researchers Consistently Produce Quality Literature Reviews	Peter Yacobucci Peter R. Yacobucci	Pedagogy Paper	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2012-03-22	5	870	Literature Grid, Literature Map, literature review
Syllabus for first year introduction to research methods course	Erick Lachapelle Erick Lachapelle	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2012-04-23	0	779	100 level, français, French, research methods, syllabus, undergraduate
network analysis syllabus	Anand Sokhey sokhey	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-08-15	0	638	network analysis, political networks, political science, quantitative methods
Ego Networks & Survey-based Network Analysis	Meredith Rolfe Meredith Rolfe	Lecture Notes and Slides Class Activities Dataset	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-10-16	0	623	egocentric networks, measuring networks, sample survey, social networks
VAR Assignment	Sara Mitchell sbmitche	Problem Set	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2012-05-21	0	618	Granger Causality, Impulse response functions, tags, test, VAR, vector autoregression
Basics of Network Computing	Michael Heaney Michael T. Heaney	Lecture Notes and Slides Dataset	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-11-07	0	606	networks, UCINet
Introduction to Probability	Dave Amp daveamp	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-04	0	602	examples, Lecture slides, probability
Time Series Modeling in Politics, Syllabus Spring 2012	Janet Box-Steffensmeier Janet M. Box-Stef...	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2012-05-20	5	585	ARIMA, ECM, graduate, syllabus, time series, VAR
POLS 509: The Linear Model - Syllabus, Lecture Videos, and R Code	Justin Esarey Justin Esarey	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2012-02-19	0	583	least squares, R, regression, stata
The Case for Teaching Research Methods to Pre-Law Students	Wendy Watson Wendy Watson	Pedagogy Paper	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-07-08	0	581	law, law school, legal, pre-law
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	562	means, notes, proportion, slides
Logistic Regression	Renan Levine RenanLevine	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-07-04	2	557	classification table, dichotomous variables, logistic regression, Logit, maximum likelihood, odds ratios
Time Series Analysis Graduate Syllabus	Sara Mitchell sbmitche	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2012-05-21	0	548	ARIMA, ECM, pooled time series, stationarity, time series, unit roots, VAR
Advanced Quantitative Methods	Chris Lawrence Chris Lawrence	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-02-12	5	539	Berman, logistic regression, political science, public administration, quantitative methods, regression, sociology, syllabus
Chi-square Test	Chris Lawrence Chris Lawrence	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2012-04-20	0	522	chi-square test, slides
Measurement PowerPoint Slides	Cameron Thies Cameron Thies	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0	2011-02-04	4	521	levels of measurement, measurement, reliability, validity
Measurement and Concept Formation	Meredith Rolfe Meredith Rolfe	Lecture Notes and Slides	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-10-16	5	521	concepts, measurement, research design, variables
scope and methods (graduate research design) syllabus	Anand Sokhey sokhey	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-08-15	0	514	political science, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, research design, scope and methods
Political Networks	Scott McClurg Scott McClurg	Syllabus	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	2011-09-07	0	509	networks, political networks, SNA, social network analysis