POL399Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Discourse Analysis, Recode, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Success: discourse analysis, look at the articles with success and follow the approach in our textbook. Frequency helps describe the data in a meaningful way. Take a look at descriptives first, helps you see if there are issues in the data set. You can check pages and then recode new variables, then make front page worth 1 and everything else. For crosstabs think about dependent variable (thing you"re trying to explain) and the independent. Dependent is legitimacy (column) independent variable is the publication (row) Check if phi and varmer"s v are always okay on the table you"re using re stat significance if you use it. Check in old textbook for a chapter comparing framing to national post.
