Master of Public Policy   Master of International Affairs  

GRAD-E1201

This course provides “hands-on-experience” to logistic regression analysis. This course does not teach “dry” statistical techniques. Instead, all lectures start with a social policy relevant research question. Together with the instructor, the students will develop an understanding of how to choose the right data set, how to process the data for empirical investigations and how to conduct simple, but straightforward empirical investigations. We focus on methods for discrete data. The reason is that most processes in the political sciences are discrete. To give some typical examples: What determines xenophobic attitudes? Who agrees to more government spending for the elderly? What influences poverty and social exclusion? In order to answer such questions in a regression framework, one commonly draws on logistic regression techniques.

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