Course Details
Country:
Spain
Institution:
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Course Title:
Statistics for social sciences I
Course Number:
13004
Course Description:
. Introduction. Studying statistical problems 2. Descriptive statistics 2.1. Types of data: Quantitative and qualitative 2.2. Types of data: cross-sectional and time series 2.3. Graphs: histogram, box plot, piechart, barchart, sequence of a series 2.4. Centrality and dispersion measures. 2.5. Relationship between variables: Correlation and scatterplot 3. Simple regression 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Hypothesis: linearity, homoscedasticity, independence and normality 3.3. Transformations if the hypothesis are not met: Logarithmic transformation 3.4. Estimation. Confidence intervals for the coefficients, the concept of significance and t test. P- value of the t. Test 3.5. R-squared 3.6. Diagnosis 4. Multiple regression 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Hypothesis: linearity, homoscedasticity, independence and normality 4.3. Transformations if the hypothesis are not met: Logarithmic transformation 4.4. Estimation. Confidence intervals for the coefficients, the concept of significance and t test. P-value of the t. Test 4.5. Marginal effects 4.6. R-squared 4.7. Diagnosis 5. Multicollinearity in multiple regression 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Multicollinearity Detection
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
SOCI 313
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