Preface

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Welcome to “Fundamentals in Quantitative Research Methods”. This module has two main aims: introduce to secondary data acquisition, management and analysis in the social sciences; prepare to attend further statistical training and make use of statistics in future research works, academic (such as master’s or PhD dissertations) or not. The module does not require any prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics. You only need to understand the importance of statistics for empirical social sciences, and show willingness to learn about them.

This is the online companion to the seminars on PO91Q. It hosts all of the material needed for the seminars and replaces any physical worksheets. This is environmentally friendlier, and has the great advantage that when working with R, it allows you to copy/paste code directly from the code chunks in this online companion.

I hope you find this useful!