Course information
In this course, the topic is the use and reflection of scientific methods. The focus lies on quantitative methods of social science research. In this course you will learn both to design empirical research questions from theory and data, and learn to analyze quantitative data using the language R. The aim is to understand when to apply which method. How to apply them correctly, and how to interpret data from these methods.
The course is supported by DataCamp a provider of online tutorials for the R language. Along with this course, the seminar “Empirisch-experimentelle Forschungsmethoden in der Anwendung” should be taken. As here, the theoretical input from the lectures will be applied and trained.
Course schedule
The course is held every winter semester.
Slides
Slides can be found here.
Warning! The slides are being developed during the course.
Books related to this course
Döring/Bortz - Forschungsmethoden und Evaluation
Online books:
- R for Data Science, Link: http://r4ds.had.co.nz (free)
- R for Social Science, Link: http://socviz.co/ (free)
- Modern Dive: https://moderndive.com/ (free)
Coursebook
The coursebook for empricial methods of social sciences can be found here.
The relevant chapters are: - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2
Shinystats online Lern-Tool
Link zum Github Respository https://github.com/Sumidu/shinystats
Installationsanleitung
Wintersemester 19⁄20 Material
Link to the Main GitHub Repository: https://github.com/sumidu/EmpirischeForschungsmethoden/
WS 18⁄19 Video Material
Was sind Forschungsmethoden
Qualitative und quantitative Methoden
Wissenschaftstheorie und Empirie
Forschungsinstrument, Messtheorie, Skalen
Deskriptive Statistik
Verteilungen, Zufall und Stichproben
Leider ohne Ton.
Nachreichung mit Ton.
Inferenz, Hypothesen, t-Test, Fehler 1. und 2. Art
Alpha-Fehler Kummulierung, Bonferroni, ANOVA
Kovarianz und Korrelation
Audio fehlt. Zweite Aufzeichnung wird nachgereicht :(
Mit Audio als Kurzzusammenfassung
Lineare Regression
Wiederholung und Likert Skalen
Video-Vorlesung: Conjoint-Software
Faktorenanalyse
Old Video Material
Video-Lectures Flipped Classroom
The following videos are based on the old course that relies on SPSS.