Research Methods for Leadership & Public Affairs (MPA 6010)
The course syllabus is available here.
The text we will use in this class is Data Analysis for Leadership and Public Affairs (1st Edition), by yours truly, and here.
You can "rent" or "purchase" a student version of SPSS 24 or 25 from here
How to choose an appropriate statistical test, graphic, etc. is here and here
Stats Tables are here
SPSS manuals can be found here and here
The data that come bundled with SPSS can be found here.
Lecture Materials
| Section 1: Introduction to SPSS | ||||
| A & F Data | Variables | Section 2: Research Designs, Measurement, & Descriptive Statistics | ||
| Slides | hs1 Data | SPSS (1) | Transportation Data | |
| ARC Data | SPSS (2) | In-class Exercises (1) | ||
| In-class Exercises (2) | Section 3: Probability, Hypothesis Testing, & Difference of Means | |||
| Slides (1) | Slides (2) | STAR Data | SPSS (3) | SPSS (4) | Section 4: Proportions & Measures of Association |
| Slides | Titanic Data | YRBSS 2015 Data | SPSS (5) | |
| County Health Rankings 2016 Data | Section 6: Linear Regression | |||
| Slides | State of the World's Children (2012) Data |