Wouter Leenders

7SSPN107: Quantitative Methods in Political Economy

This module introduces students to the quantitative methods commonly used in political economy. It introduces students to the foundations of statistical analysis, with a particular emphasis on regression analysis and its application to political and economic questions. Alongside the theoretical material, students gain practical experience conducting quantitative analyses in R, including data management, visualisation, estimation and interpretation of regression models.

General

• Module outline [PDF]
• Installing R and RStudio [PDF]

Lectures

• 1. Review of probability [PDF]
• 2. Normal distributions and sampling distributions [PDF]
• 3. Estimators and confidence intervals [PDF]
• 4. Hypothesis testing [PDF]

Seminars

• 1. R fundamentals and workflow [PDF]
  • survey.csv
  • turnout.csv
• 2. Exploring and visualising data [PDF]
  • bes_2019.csv

Problem set

Exam