This module examines quantitative methods in political research and shows how different methods can be used to answer substantive questions about political phenomena. After an initial examination of some tools for statistical inference the rest of the rest term of this module focuses particularly on regression analysis.

Attention is paid to the potential problems of the classical regression model and solutions to these problems. In the second term, we focus on how to use these tools to answer substantive questions about politics. We pay specific attention to threats to causal inference and how research can be designed to overcome them.