MPA 6010: Research Methods for Leadership & Public Affairs

MPA 6010 is an introductory course in applied statistics. It is designed for our MPA students who may have never taken a statistics course in their undergraduate degree program or who took it a long time ago and need a refresher course.

Please see the Syllabus and a free online textbook that will be helpful beyond the materials that follow.

Pay attention to the modules. No dates are attached per module because we set our own pace.

Slides SPSS Tutorials
Module #1 Welcome to SPSS
Working with Data
Descriptive Statistics
Module #2 Computing z-scores
Module #3
Module #4 One-Sample t-tests
Independent-samples
Paired-samples
Binomial Tests
Module #5 Analysis of One-Way Variance (ANOVA)
Analysis of Two-Way ANOVA
Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance
Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)
Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA)
Module #6 \(\chi^2\) goodness-of-fit
\(\chi^2\) test of association
Module #7 Correlations
Simple Linear Regression
Slides jamovi Tutorials by datalab.cc
Module #1 Welcome to jamovi
Installing jamovi
Navigating jamovi
Sharing files
jamovi modules
Entering data
Importing data
Variable types
Filtering data
Computing means
Descriptive statistics
Bar-plots
Histograms
Box-plots
Exporting tables & plots
Transforming scores to categories
Module #2 Computing z-scores
Module #3
Module #4 Introduction to t-tests
One-sample
Independent-samples
Paired-samples
Binomial tests
Module #5 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Repeated Measures ANOVA
Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)
Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA)
Module #6 \(\chi^2\) goodness-of-fit
\(\chi^2\) test of association
Module #7 Correlations
Overview of Regression
Linear Regression
Variable entry