PSCI-1101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Socialism, Middle Class, International Law

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI-1101
• Professor: Keith R Weghorst

Document Summary

Application questions that relate to substantive information and design. Don"t answer in form of essay, just present as much information as possible. When an independent variable is correlated with an error term. Confounder - third variable impacting both dependant and independant variable. Feedback loop - x&y are related to one another, but we don"t know the relationship between the two variables. A variable that we are unaware of that may have an effect. Independent variable (y) what we want to explain (x) what we think plays a role in explaining. Variables that work to approximate the relationship between dependant and independant variables. Included in statistical analysis to perform the role of the experimental control (focus precisely on relationship between x & y, holding everything else constant) The means by which social scientists make comparisons across cases. X & y are equal, all other information is different. Differentiation is on all explanations except x & y.