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Wednesday, March 6 15-18 D2.0.030
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Introduction - Organization
Participation required
Slides
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Wednesday, March 20
15-17 D2.0.030
17-19 D2.0.382
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Topic 1 (=chapter 1): Constanze Kerres & Clarissa Schott
Foundations of quantitative research
Slides,
Cheat sheet distributed in the unit
Links to validity threats:
https://www.statisticshowto.com/statistical-conclusion-validity/,
https://dissertation.laerd.com/construct-validity-p2.php,
https://web.pdx.edu/~stipakb/download/PA555/ResearchDesign.html,
https://www.statisticshowto.com/statistical-conclusion-validity/
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Topic 2 (=chapter 2): Constantin Lackinger & Philipp Pilatowicz
Sampling
Slides
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Wednesday,
April 10
15:00-19:30
D2.0.038
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Quizzes on topics 1 (concept mapping and logic models excluded) and 2
Topic 3 (=chapter 3): Gael Fostier de Moraes & Sofia Gomez Tamayo
Measurement
Slides
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Wednesday,
April 17
15-19:30 D4.0.144
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Quiz on topic 3
Topic 5 (=chapter 5): Julius Lechner & Katrin Schreiberhuber
Scaling and Indexes
See also
Likert (1932, reprint 2007),
Brief introduction
Slides
(Version with comments on slides 11, 18 and 19)
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Topic 4 (=chapter 4): Johanna Seeliger
Survey Research
Slides
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Wednesday,
May 15
15-19:30 D4.0.144
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Quiz on topics 4 and 5
Topic 6 (=chapter 7): Johanna Gruber & Nathanael Paterno
Design
Slides,
Cheat sheet
On making causal claims: A review and recommendation (updated slides)
Youtube Link to video on Kaplan Meier plots illustrating differences between randomized controlled trials and observational studies (link provided by team of presenters)
Literature recommendation as to causality in survey/observational research (unfortunately, not easy to read):
John Antonakis, Samuel Bendahan, Philippe Jacquart, and Rafael Lalive (2010). On making causal claims: A review and recommendations. The Leadership Quarterly 21, 1086 1120.
Link ScienceDirect WU
Videos at YouTube: Endogeneity: An inconvenient truth (a gentle introduction), by John Antonakis,
Endogeneity: An inconvenient truth (full version), by John Antonakis
See also:
Young, A. (June 2018). Consistency without Inference: Instrumental Variables in Practical Application. London School of Economics.
https://personal.lse.ac.uk/YoungA/ConsistencyWithoutInference.pdf,
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/YoungA/ConsistencyWithoutInferenceAppendix.pdf
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Topic 7 (=chapter 9): Luca Held & Peter Stolcz
Experimental Design
Slides
Bradford Hill criteria of causality [pdf]
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Topic 8 (=chapter 10): Nikolaj Thallmayer
Quasi-Experimental Design
Slides
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Wednesday,
May 29 13-15 and 15-17 D2.0.326 and from 15:00 D4.0.144
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Quizzes on topics 6, 7 and 8
Topic 9 (=chapter 12): Tommaso Gimelli
Analysis Part 1
Slides
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Topic 10 (=chapter 14): Greta Dohrwardt & Alisa Hirn
Analysis Part 2 (up to and including page 308)
Slides
Start of the course evaluation!
Extra:
Example Randomised Block Design and Ancova versus simple t-Test
Randomized Block Design Illustration (slides pdf),
Randomized Block Design simulated data (SPSS data file sav)
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Wednesday,
June 5 15-18 D4.0.144
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Final Exams and Closing Session
Quizzes on topics 9 and 10
Opportunity to do missed quizzes and up to 2 upgrading quizzes (from 1 to 8; original quizzes are cancelled)
Extra:
Hypothesis testing and interpretation / missing data
Hypothesis testing (and missing data) [pdf],
Hypothesis testing Bayes [excel]
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