POL 51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: American Political Science Review, Targe
16 May 2014
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The solution find instances where x varies but z does not example: rule (1994) in figure 4 there are 3 countries where pr has higher levels of women"s representation and the correlation cannot be due to z. [this seems to be the mistake that rule (1994) made. ] Sometimes called a false positive or a type i error: mistake 2: conclusing that there is not a general relationship when there actually is one. > a unit for which data is gathered; a unit for which variables are measured a row in a spreadsheet examples: women in congress: the units are congresses. For each congress, we record its number, its dates, the number of women in the house, and the number of women in the senate: presidential elections: the units are presidential elections. 1945-1993. american political science review 89: answer three questions, what are the units of analysis in the article, how many observations are collected, summarize the results in table 1.
