Schedule
Surveys, Secondary Analysis and Social Statistics 2014-15
Term 1:
WEEK 2: (Bivariate) Cross-tabulations, Chi-square and SPSS Revisited/Secondary Analysis and Official Statistics
WEEK 3: Multivariate Analysis (with an emphasis on Multi-way Cross-tabulations)
WEEK 4: Regression I: Getting the preliminaries in place (e.g. correlation)
WEEK 5: Regression II: Multiple regression
WEEK 6: Regression III: Assumptions and complications
WEEK 7: Logistic regression I
WEEK 8: Logistic regression II/Log-linear models I
WEEK 9: Log-linear models II
WEEK 10: Issues relating to complex sample designs
Term 2:
WEEK 11: Operationalising concepts
WEEK 12: Interpreting published articles based on multivariate analyses
WEEK 13: Index construction
WEEK 14: Analysing means I: (Extending) Analysis of Variance
WEEK 15: Analysing means II: Nonparametric techniques
WEEK 16: [READING WEEK]
WEEK 17: Survival analysis/Event history analysis
WEEK 18: Measuring association and inequality
WEEK 19: Other multivariate techniques: clustering and scaling
WEEK 20: A glimpse beyond the module: Extensions of logistic regression, Multi-level models, etc.