[POLS 3650] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (259 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3650
• Professor: Edward Koning

Document Summary

Lectures: do not hesitate to ask questions, some lectures will present material that is not in the textbook (lectures 8. 20: please be respectful, texting, facebook, and talking is distracting, make sure to arrive on time. Tutorials: start in week 2 (january 18-20, bring a usb key or other storage device (at least 1 gb, will explain how to navigate software, more hands on, 15% of grade. Course material: miethe, terance d. & gauthier, jane f. (2008). Oxford university press: accompanying cd contains spss manual, other textbook chapters posted online. Overview: basic mathematics, fractions and decimals, order of operations, equations and formulas, crucial terms in statistics, data, variables, and attributes, univariate, bivariate, and multivariate statistics, sampling and statistical inference. Sampling and statistical inference: population set of cases we want to make claims about, sampling frame (or study population) set of cases we draw our sample from, sample set of cases we analyze.