A Microsoft Excel® Companion to Political Analysis
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A Microsoft Excel® Companion to Political Analysis

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eBook - ePub

A Microsoft Excel® Companion to Political Analysis

About this book

The trusted series of workbooks by Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards continues with A Microsoft Excel®Companion to Political Analysis. In this new guide, students dive headfirst into actual political data working with the ubiquitous Excel software. Students learn by doing with new guided examples, annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, and exercises that reflect current scholarly debates in varied subfields of political science, including American politics, comparative politics, law and courts, and international relations. Chapters cover all major topics in political data analysis, from descriptive statistics through logistic regression, all with worked examples and exercises in Excel. No matter their professional goals, students can gain a leg up for their future careers by developing a working knowledge of statistics using Excel. By encouraging students to build on their existing familiarity with the Excel program, instructors can flatten the statistics learning curve and take some of the intimidation out of the learning process. Gain lost time usually spent troubleshooting software to provide students with a smooth transition into political analysis.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Brief Contents
  7. Detailed Contents
  8. Illustration List
  9. Preface
  10. Getting Started
  11. 1 Using Excel for Data Analysis
  12. 2 Descriptive Statistics
  13. 3 Creating and Transforming Variables
  14. 4 Making Comparisons
  15. 5 Graphing Relationships and Describing Patterns
  16. 6 Random Assignment and Sampling
  17. 7 Making Controlled Comparisons
  18. 8 Foundations of Statistical Inference
  19. 9 Hypothesis Tests with One or Two Samples
  20. 10 Chi-Square Test and Analysis of Variance
  21. 11 Correlation and Bivariate Regression
  22. 12 Multiple Regression Analysis
  23. 13 Analyzing Regression Residuals
  24. 14 Logistic Regression
  25. 15 Doing Your Own Political Analysis
  26. Appendix, Table A-1 Variables in the Debate Experiment Workbook1
  27. Appendix, Table A-2 Variables in the Presidential Elections Workbook1
  28. Appendix, Table A-3 Variables in the States Workbook’s Dataset by Topic
  29. Appendix, Table A-4 Variables in the World Workbook’s Dataset by Topic