Postgraduate Module Descriptor


POLM809: Applied Quantitative Data Analysis

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

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

Topic 1: Introduction: why use quantitative data and

Topic 2: Inferential statistics, a primer

Topic 3: Collecting data, sampling, data management and data integrity

Topic 4: Describing data and dealing with missing data

Topic 5: Testing relationships between variables

Topic 6: Visual displays of data

Topic 7: Multivariate statistics

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching ActivitiesGuided independent studyPlacement / study abroad
221280

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

CategoryHours of study timeDescription
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities227 weekly two-hour sessions (including introductory session).
Guided independent study66Reading, thinking and preparing for weekly sessions
Guided Independent Study62Web-based learning; Preparation and completion of assessments

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

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).

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).

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/