Quantitative Methods Topics

Quantitative Methods Topics

Please note–the following info & links are copied from & connected to my previous stats tutoring website.  I am in the process of gradually updating and adding new content specific for this site.

In the following topics, I share how-to guides using screenshots, videos, and downloadable content. All examples, unless indicated, use Microsoft Excel 2007 and SPSS v19. Videos are recorded using CamStudio and uploaded to YouTube.

Datasets for the topics below and other materials are available on the Downloadable Materials page.  Find additional supporting information on the Resources page.

Intro

• Public Policy and Quantitative Research Methods
• Getting started with SPSS
• Statistics in Excel

Foundations

• Types of Variables, Levels of Measurement, and Descriptive v. Inferential Statistics
• Descriptive Statistics
• Normal Curve
• Z-Scores
• Hypothesis Testing & Significance
• Confidence Intervals (coming soon)
• One-tail and Two-tail Hypothesis Testing (coming soon)
• Causality: Types of Variable Relationships (coming soon)

Stats Techniques

• T-Tests
• ANOVA
• Crosstabs & Chi-Square
• Measures of Association (coming soon)
• Bivariate Linear Regression (coming soon)
• Multivariate Linear Regression (coming soon)
• Binary Logistic Regression (coming soon)
• Overview of other types of Regression

Choosing a Statistical Test & Quick Review

Other SPSS Techniques

• Making Presentation Quality (PQ) Charts and Tables
• Recoding and Value Labels
• Selecting Cases and Split File output
• Making Scale Variables