This course is compulsory on the BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course cannot be taken with ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis.
This course is compulsory on the BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course cannot be taken with ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis.
16 hours and 40 minutes of lectures and 13 hours and 30 minutes of classes in the MT. A combination of classes and lectures totalling 33.5 hours across Lent Term (counting the 50 mins as 1 hour). Reading week in Week 6.
Students will be expected to produce 10 problem sets in the MT. Students will work on weekly, structured problem sets in the staff-led class sessions. Example solutions will be provided at the end of each week.
James et al. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With applications in R. Springer.? Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham (2016) R for Data Science. O'Reilly Media.? Murrell, P. (2018). R graphics. CRC Press. Benoit, Kenneth. (2020) ?Text as Data: An Overview.? In Curini, Luigi and Robert Franzese, eds. Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. Thousand Oaks: Sage. pp461-497.
Exam (40%, duration: 3 hours) in the January exam period. Coursework (60%, 2000 words) in the MT.