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Digital Social Research: Statistics Core

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Course details
Compulsory course for MSc and DPhil; Michaelmas Term
Assessment
Written exam
Reading list
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Tutor
Dr Fabian Braesemann

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Digital Social Research: Statistics Core introduces students to statistics for the social sciences, with an emphasis on application to research on the Internet and society. This course introduces students to the most important types of quantitative social science data: discrete, counted data and continuous data.

The course covers the following topics:

  1. Social statistics and statistical software
  2. Probability and sampling distributions
  3. Testing hypotheses for 1 variable
  4. Testing hypotheses for 2 variables
  5. Two-way tables
  6. Summarizing bivariate relationships
  7. Statistical controls using the Elaboration model
  8. Introduction to linear regression