Undergraduate Department of Government and Public Administration - CUHK


Class Code: GPAD4111
Academic Year: 2020 - 2021
Title: App Stat Methods for Soc Sci
Teaching:

Professor LI Lianjiang

Period: Th 02:30PM - 05:15PM
Location: NRR
Description:

This course will help graduates and advanced undergraduate students develop a working knowledge of the statistical methods which are widely used in political science, public administration, psychology, social work and sociology. Topics include: exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis and scale construction, data transformations, binary, ordinal and multinomial regressions, and structural equation modelling. The course focuses on practical applications rather than statistical theories. Published research articles are used to illustrate the rationales and problems of applying various statistical techniques and selected researches are repeated in class so that students can get first-hand experience in tackling these problems. Students with basic knowledge in quantitative methods preferred.