Methods

From Quantitative Politics

[edit] Overview of Quantitative Methods

A number of people have asked for an overview of what quantitative and formal methods are available for political science research. Here are a list of methods: This page could use a brief summary overview, that ties together these links.

A short list:

• Statistical Methods
  • Regression Analysis
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Structural Equation Modeling
• Deductive Methods
  • Game Theory
  • Spatial Voting Theory
  • Axiomatic Theory
• Simulation Methods
  • Agent-based Modeling
  • Discrete Event Simulation
  • System Dynamics Modeling
  • Monte Carlo Simulation (common to many methods)

[edit] Existing References

Existing References on these topics (heck, why duplicate?)

• UCLA's website on Statistical Computing
• Wikipedia's summaries
  • Statistical
    • Wikipedia:Statistics
    • Wikipedia:Regression_analysis
    • Wikipedia:Structural_Equation_Modeling
    • Wikipedia:Maximum_likelihood
  • Deductive
    • Wikipedia:Game_Theory
    • Wikipedia:Social_choice_theory
    • Wikipedia:Public_choice_theory
    • Wikipedia:Mathematical_model (Closed Form Mathematical Models)
  • Simulation (Computational)
    • Wikipedia:Agent-based_modelling
    • Wikipedia:Monte_Carlo_method
    • Wikipedia:Discrete_event_simulation
    • Wikipedia:System_Dynamics

[edit] (Online, Free) Courses

• Statistics
  • MIT's OpenCourseWare Statistics for Political Science
    • Introduction to Stats

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-872Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm

• • • Multivariate Stats http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-874Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm
  • StatSoft's Online Statistics Textbook http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html