MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION

POLISCI 813

Extensive treatment of multiple regression and its variants.

POLISCI 919

Design of research and adaptation of advanced methods to solve particular methodological problems in original analyses of political data.

POLISCI 817

Acquaints students with a wide variety of research methods used to analyze political phenomena, emphasizing both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

POLISCI 812

Introductory statistics course for Ph.D. students. Emphasis on probability theory, inference, and the foundations of multivariate least squares and maximum likelihood.

POLISCI 811

Introduction to the issues of statistical computing in political science using statistical packages such as STATA and R with emphasis on developing sound practices for organizing data, protocols, and results in empirical research. Not open to students with credit for POLI SCI 553 prior to fall 2017