Introduction to Research Methods
Taught: F23,F24
POLI 502 - Methods of Political Analysis
Course Description
This course is the first in the political science graduate methodology sequence. It offers an introduction to the theory and practice of quantitative data analysis techniques, and covers topics like probability, properties of random variables (especially expectation and variance), estimands and estimators, hypothesis testing, and statistical inference.
Howard Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
My research interests include state repression, protest, dictatorship, armed conflict, and networks.