Module POLM809 for 2023/4
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
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 Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 22 | 7 weekly two-hour sessions (including introductory session). |
Guided independent study | 66 | Reading, thinking and preparing for weekly sessions |
Guided Independent Study | 62 | Web-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/