Study Guides for POL 3371 at University of Ottawa

POL3371B MIDTERM EXAM REVIEW Epistemology: science of knowing Propositional claims: descriptive claims about the world that are either true or false Propositional Knowledge: Rooted in a set of beliefs; beliefs must be...

March 28, 2014 SPSS Example Dependent – is regime a democracy? Independent – GDP/capita WB GDP/capita variable type = interval/ratio -missing values are already defined as missing Binary Regression D – is reg...

March 4, 2014 Midterm Review Age (years) is an example of an interval/ratio level variable. Interval/ratio variables have categories that can be ranked with the same specified distance between categories or values. Sa...

Feb. 25, 2014 T-Test Independent Samples T-Test o Used to test research hypothesis • Example: Men and women in Canada have different levels of confidence in political parties. o ...

MIDTERM OVERVIEW  Questions • multiple choice (theoretical – different types of variables) • SPSS based (Chi-square, Crosstab)  Based on content of the first half of the c...

Feb. 4, 2014 Measures of Association and Chi Square Test Chi Square Test of Significance  Can be used with variables at any level of measurement o Most appropriate for nominal and ordinal variables ...

Jan. 31, 2014 2% range Ex: 46.5% = 44.6% - 48.5% Hypotheses Testing/Cross-Tabulation Analysis BivariateAnalysis  Determines whether there is a relationship between two variables o Dependent and i...