Coursera – Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences Specialization 2023-3

Published on: 2023-04-13 07:43:08

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Descriptions

Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences Specialization. Identify interesting questions, analyze data sets, and correctly interpret results to make solid, evidence-based decisions. This Specialization covers research methods, design and statistical analysis for social science research questions. In the final Capstone Project, you’ll apply the skills you learned by developing your own research question, gathering data, and analyzing and reporting on the results using statistical methods. Discover the principles of solid scientific methods in the behavioral and social sciences. Join us and learn to separate sloppy science from solid research! This course will cover the fundamental principles of science, some history and philosophy of science, research designs, measurement, sampling and ethics. The course is comparable to a university level introductory course on quantitative research methods in the social sciences, but has a strong focus on research integrity. We will use examples from sociology, political sciences, educational sciences, communication sciences and psychology. In this course you will be introduced to the basic ideas behind the qualitative research in social science.

You will learn about data collection, description, analysis and interpretation in qualitative research. Qualitative research often involves an iterative process. We will focus on the ingredients required for this process: data collection and analysis. You won’t learn how to use qualitative methods by just watching video’s, so we put much stress on collecting data through observation and interviewing and on analysing and interpreting the collected data in other assignments. Obviously, the most important concepts in qualitative research will be discussed, just as we will discuss quality criteria, good practices, ethics, writing some methods of analysis, and mixing methods. We hope to take away some prejudice, and enthuse many students for qualitative research. Understanding statistics is essential to understand research in the social and behavioral sciences. In this course you will learn the basics of statistics; not just how to calculate them, but also how to evaluate them. This course will also prepare you for the next course in the specialization – the course Inferential Statistics.

What you’ll learn

Statistics
Statistical Inference
R Programming
Qualitative Research
Confidence Interval
Statistical Hypothesis Testing
Regression Analysis
Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA)

Specificatoin of Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences Specialization

Publisher : Coursera
Teacher : Annemarie Zand Scholten , Matthijs Rooduijn , Gerben Moerman , Emiel van Loon
Language : English
Level : Beginner
Number of Course : 5
Duration : Approximately 10 months to complete Suggested pace of 3 hours/week