Understanding Political Science Statistics and Understanding Political Science Statistics using STATA (bundle)

Understanding Political Science Statistics: 1. Political Science, the Scientific Method, and Statistical Analysis: An Overview 2. How Do We Measure and Observe? 3. Central Tendency as Summary Observation 4. Dispersion, Variation, Goodness of Fit as Summary Observation 5. Standardized Scores and Normal Distributions: The Concept of Relative Observation 6. An Intuitive Introduction to Inference and Hypothesis Testing 7. Hypothesis Testing and the Concept of ASsociation: Observations and Expectatiosn about the Difference between Two Means 8. Inferential Statistics for Proportions 9. Measuring Association for Nominal and Ordinal Data 10. Research Design and the Use of Control Variables 11. Different by How Much? Linear Regression 12. Retracing Our Steps: Hypotheses, Multiple Regression, and the EFfects of Third Variables

Stata Manual: 1. General Overview 2. Setting up the Stata Data File for Analysis 3. Commonly Used Stata Commands—Operationalization 4. Commonly Used Stata Commands—Data Analysis