Applied Logistic Regression

This course provides "hands-on" experience with logistic regression analysis. This course does not teach "dry" statistical techniques. Instead, all lectures start with a social policy-relevant research question. Together with the instructor, students will develop an understanding of how to choose the right data set, how to prepare the data for empirical investigation, and how to conduct simple but sound empirical investigations. We focus on methods for discrete data. This is because most processes in political science are discrete. To give some typical examples: What determines xenophobic attitudes? What affects poverty and social exclusion? What factors relate to intimate partner violence? To answer such questions in a regression framework, logistic regression techniques are commonly used. We draw on data from across the globe, including data from Latin America, Africa and Asia.