POLS625
Political
Theory and Research Design
Paper
Phase 0: Topic
Phase 1: Introduction
Phase 2: Theory
Phase 3: Operationalization
Phase 4: Descriptive
Statistics
Phase 5: Conclusion (See the Pre-results section)
BSU
Institutional Review Board
Citing
References
We follow the Chicago Manual of
Style. See the citation guide below.
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Example:
American
Political Science Review
Handouts
Levels
of measurement and units of analysis
SPSS
Recoding, Descriptive
Statistics, Cross-tabulation
EXCEL
Exams
Exam 1
Exercise: Z score 1 Z score 2 Descriptive
stats Excel
Bivariate crosstab
inQsit: calculator exercise (includes Z score and
standard deviation)
Exam 2
Test of statistical
significance and measures of association: Summary table
Exercise:
t-test Lambda Exercise 1
Calculating Your Final Grade: Weighted average
Exam 3
Datasets
https://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/mnishikawa/BSU_SHARED/
Assignments
Assignment 1 Ethics
Assignment
2 Frequency
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3 Frequency
Assignment
4 Recoding
Assignment
5 Prisoners’ dilemma game
Assignment 6 Levels of measurement and units of analysis
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7 Variance and standard deviation
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8
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9 Excel
Assignment
10 inQsit Quiz
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11 Crosstab 1
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12 Crosstab 2
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13 Crosstab 3
Assignment 14 Collecting data for research paper
Assignment
15 Z-test, t-test
Assignment
16 Chi-square test
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17 Measures of Association
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18 Correlation
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19 Regression
Assignment 20 Obtaining test results for research paper
Tables
