Postgraduate Module Descriptor


POLM086: Quantitative Data Analysis

This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

 Diamond, Ian, and Julie Jefferies. 2001. Beginning Statistics. SAGE Research Methods (available via UoE library at https://methods.sagepub.com/book/beginning-statistics).

Feinstein, Charles H., and Mark Thomas. 2002. Making History Count: A Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (available via UoE library at https://uoelibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164832).

Hudson, Pat. 2000. History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches. London: Bloomsbury.

Creswell, John W., and J. David Creswell. 2018. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Los Angeles: SAGE (available via UoE library at https://app.kortext.com/borrow/254557).

Pollock III, Philip H. 2020. The Essentials of Political Analysis (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press (available via UoE library at https://app.kortext.com/borrow/607045).

Fogarty, Brian. 2019. Quantitative Social Science Data with R: An Introduction. Los Angeles: SAGE (available via UoE library at https://app.kortext.com/borrow/369087).

Field, Andy, Jeremy Miles, and Zoë Field. 2012. Discovering Statistics Using R. Los Angeles: SAGE (available via UoE library at https://read.kortext.com/reader/pdf/2726).

Big Book of R, https://www.bigbookofr.com/index.html

Hoover, Kenneth, and Todd Donovan. 2013. The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking. Cengage Learning (available via UoE library at https://www.vlebooks.com/Product/Index/496466).

Additional resources available on ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/