2023/2024
Contemporary Data Analysis: Methodology and Methods of Interdisciplinary Research
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
International Laboratory for Applied Network Research
When:
1, 2 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Irina Pavlova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course is a required foundational course for masters’ students in applied statistics and data analysis, designed to familiarize them with the most recent developments in interdisciplinary statistical methods. The students will get an overview of data and approaches to analyzing them (remember, “data” is always plural!), including complex models. The course will also emphasize problem formulation at the intersection of mathematics and social sciences, integrate the most important concepts from probability theory, and overall, is designed as a "gateway" to graduate work in statistics, where the mathematical concepts are bridged with applied concepts and research design, depending on the discipline.
Learning Objectives
- The course gives students an important foundation to develop and conduct their own research as well as to evaluate research of others.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Be able to apply data analysis tools to real-life problems.
- Be able to build and estimate formalized mathematical models, describing real-life situations.
- Be able to criticize constructively and determine existing issues with the use of statistical methods in published work .
- Be able to estimate the data, find appropriate functions describing the data, visualize data.
- Have a working knowledge of different ways of using software programs for data analysis.
- Have a working knowledge of mathematics of data analysis.
- Know contemporary software programs used to analyze data.
- Know the four major areas that contemporary field of statistics is based on: data management, statistical inference, statistical prediction, and statistical reporting.
- Know the most recent advances in network science and applied statistical methods, complex statistical modeling, analysis, and forecasting.
Course Contents
- Section 1 Introduction and the data
- Section 2 Data issues that go bump in the night
- Section 3 Descriptive Analytics
- Section 4 Inferential analytics
- Section 5 Predictive Analytics
- Section 6 Prescriptive Analytics
Assessment Elements
- Final In-Class or Take-home exam (at the discretion of the instructor)
- Homework Assignments
- In-Class Labs
- Quizzes
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.5 * Final In-Class or Take-home exam (at the discretion of the instructor) + 0.2 * Homework Assignments + 0.2 * In-Class Labs + 0.1 * Quizzes
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Brown, T. A. (2015). Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research, Second Edition (Vol. Second edition). New York: The Guilford Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=831411
- Denis, D. J. (2016). Applied Univariate, Bivariate, and Multivariate Statistics. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1091881
- Raykov, T., & Marcoulides, G. A. (2006). A First Course in Structural Equation Modeling (Vol. 2nd ed). Mahwah, NJ: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=188193
- Statistics and Causality : Methods for Applied Empirical Research, edited by Wolfgang Wiedermann, and Eye, Alexander von, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4530803.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Khandker, S. R., Koolwal, G. B., & Samad, H. A. (2010). Handbook on Impact Evaluation : Quantitative Methods and Practices. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publications. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=305052
- Little, R. J. A., & Rubin, D. B. (2002). Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (Vol. Second edition). Hoboken: Wiley-Interscience. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=838162
- Pearl, J., Glymour, M., & Jewell, N. P. (2016). Causal Inference in Statistics : A Primer. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1161971