Description

PS 312 • Spring 2025
Department of Political Science

Northwestern University

This site is designed to support students enrolled in the PS312 Statistical Research Methods course. In the section, we will focus on coding and practicing the concepts covered in the lectures.

Section Details

  •   Thursday
  •   University Hall 412
  •   artur.baranov@u.northwestern.edu

Office Hours Details

  •   Monday
  •   Scott Hall 110
  •   11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Schedule

Week Title Link Code Data
1 Introduction to Statistical Methods
2 Exploring Data
3 Data Structures and Classes  
4 Statistical Tests
5 OLS Regression
6 Regression Extensions
7 Presenting Results of Regression
8 Quarter Review  
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Additional Resources

Title Link
Installing R and RStudio
Joining Data in R with dplyr
Data Merging Example
Political Science datasets
Quarto for Writing Papers
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