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科目名稱:社會科學統計方法

Course Name: Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences

修別:必

Type of Credit: Required

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

20

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details

課程簡介Course Description

Social Statistics (I) is designed to introduce to you some basic quantitative techniques frequently used in social and political research.

核心能力分析圖 Core Competence Analysis Chart

能力項目說明


    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    The first week is reserved for a quick review of high school algebra. For the rest of the semester we shall cover descriptive statistics, probability, estimation and hypothesis testing, contingency tables, and if time allows, linear regression models.

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

    教學週次Course Week 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type

    本課程平均每週投入時數約九小時。各週之課程主題、內容與指定閱讀如下:

    9/12 Introduction and review of basic math

                    Hagle, Section 1 (pp. 1-19);

                    Fox, Sections 2.1.1-2.1.4 (pp. 48-54).

    Data

    9/19 Measurement, Sampling, Data Sets and Software SPSS & R

     

                    Agresti, Chapters 1-2, and Appendix (read pp.509-510; 517; 526-527);

                    Imai, Chapter 1 & Sections 3.4-3.5;

                    方世榮,第1 章、2 章之2.1-2.2、及7 章之7.1-7.2

                    R for Data Science, Chapters 1, 2 & 3;

    參考讀物:黃紀2023,〈調查研究設計〉,載於 陳陸輝 主編《民意調查》第二章,台北:五南圖書。

    King, Gary. 2016. “Big Data Is Not About Data!” In Computational Social Science: Discovery and Ptediction, ed. R. Michael Alvarez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. vii-x.

     

    9/26-10/3 Descriptive Statistics

     

                    Agresti, Chapter 3;

                    Imai, Chapter 2 (skip 2.3-2.5), & Sections 3.1-3.3, 5.3 & 5.5.3;

                    方世榮,第2, 3章;

              黃紀、王德育,頁3-5

                    R for Data Science, Chapters 4-8.

    實例—Huang, Chi(黃紀). 2017. “Electoral System Change and Its Effects on the Party System in Taiwan.” Chapter 10 in The Taiwan Voter, eds. Christopher H. Achen and T.Y. Wang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

    參考讀物:Westfall, Peter H. 2014. “Kurtosis as Peakedness, 1905-2014. R.I.P.The American Statistician 68(3): 191-5.

     

    Probability

    10/17-10/31     Basic Probability Concepts

     

    Agresti, Section 4.1;

    Fox, pp. 84-88;

                    Imai, Sections 6.1 & 6.2;

    方世榮,第4章。

     

     

    11/7              **期中考試**

    11/14      An Introduction to Calculus

                    Fox, pp. 55-74 and 79-83.

     

    11/21          Random Variables and Probability Distributions (I)

     

                    Agresti, Sections 4.2 & 4.3;

    Imai, Section 6.3;

                    Fox, pp. 89-95;

        方世榮,第5章(先讀pp. 129-144+pp. 155-158+pp. 160-171)、第6章。

     

    11/28        Random Variables and Probability Distributions (II)

     

                    Fox, pp. 99-119;

        方世榮,第5章(聯合機率pp. 144-155+pp. 159-160+pp. 171-174);

    黃紀、王德育,第一章。

     

    Estimation and Hypothesis Testing

    12/5-12/12       Estimation

     

                    Agresti, Sections 4.4-4.6 and Chapter 5;

                    Fox, pp. 113-130;

                    Imai, Sections 6.4 - 6.5 & 7.1;

                    方世榮,第7章、第8章。

     

    12/19-12/26     Hypothesis Testing: One Sample and Two Samples

     

                    Agresti, Chapters 6, 7 and Sections 8.1-8.4;

                    Imai.,Sections 2.1-2.5, 2.8, 3.5-3.6, 7.1.5, 7.2;

           方世榮,第9章、第10章、第11

           Wasserstein, Ronald L. 2016. "ASA Statement on Statistical Significance and p-Values."

                                The American Statistician 70(2): 131-133. 

     

    實例—Gerber, Alan S., Donald P. Green, and Christopher W. Larimer. 2008. “Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment.” American Political Science Review 102(1): 33-46.

    Huang, Chi(黃紀). 2018. “Testing Partisan Effects on Economic Perceptions: A Panel Design Approach.” Journal of Electoral Studies《選舉研究》25(2): 89-115.

    黃紀,2005,〈投票穩定與變遷之分析方法:定群類別資料之馬可夫鍊模型〉,《選舉研究》,12(1): 1-35

     

    1/2          **期末口頭報告**

     

    1/9          **期末考試**

     

    1/11       **繳期末書面報告**

     

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    60%

    講述 Lecture

    10%

    討論 Discussion

    0%

    小組活動 Group activity

    30%

    數位學習 E-learning

    0%

    其他: Others: 社會科學統計方法實習

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    作業、練習、小考 20%

    期中考試 20%

    期末考試 25%

    期末報告 30%

    出席、回答抽問 5%

    指定/參考書目Textbook & References

    Agresti, Alan. 2018. Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, 5th ed. UK: Pearson. (Hereafter, Agresti)(雙葉書廊代理)

           book website: https://media.pearsoncmg.com/intl/ge/2018/ge_agresti_stat_ss_5/bp/agresti_smss5ege_data.html

    Fox, John. 2009. A Mathematical Primer for Social Statistics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (QASS# 159) (Hereafter, Fox)

    Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Hereafter, Imai)(新月圖書代理)book website: http://qss.princeton.press/

    Wickham, Hadley, and Garrett Grolemund. 2023. R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data, 2nd edition. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly. 免費線上版 website: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/ .

    方世榮、張文賢,2018統計學導論8版,台北:華泰。(以下簡稱 方世榮)

    黃紀、王德育,2016,《質變數與受限依變數的迴歸分析》2016修訂版,台北:五南。(以下簡稱 黃紀、王德育

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    課程相關連結Course Related Links

    台灣選舉與民主化調查TEDS 網頁: http://www.tedsnet.org/ (ICPSR 35094)
    台灣政經傳播研究中心TIGCR 網頁:https://tigcr.nccu.edu.tw/
    
    

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