Type of Credit: Required
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Social Statistics (I) is designed to introduce to you some basic quantitative techniques frequently used in social and political research.
能力項目說明
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.
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 |
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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、第2 章之2.1-2.2、及第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章
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**
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%
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》第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)
必備工具:筆記型電腦、基本功能計算機(只須具備四則運算+ - ´ ¸ 、開根號Ö、乘冪xy、對數log、指數exp、簡單記憶M之功能)、撲克牌。
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/