Swiss Summer School 2009

Eugène Horber
Statistics & SPSS for Social Scientists

Eugène Horber is Professor of Applied Computer Science in the Section des Sciences Sociales, University of Geneva. He holds a PhD degree in Political Science (University of Geneva). He teaches social science methodology (both quantitative and qualitative), applied computer science, and statistics at the University of Geneva, as well as Exploratory Data Analysisat INSEE/ENSAI (Rennes). He is the director of the Swiss Summer School (Social Science Methodology); main teaching activities in the past include the Essex Summer School, the Carcassonne Summer School, the PRESTA Progamme (EU programme for South America), Eurostat/TES and ENSAE (Paris). His research interests and publications are in the area of statistical methodology (data exploration, visual data analysis), survey research and aggregate data analysis, as well as applied computer science (didactical software, hypertext) and computer assisted qualitatative data analysis. He is the author of a software package for exploratory data analysis.

Workshop objectives and content

The main focus of this introductory workshop is both conceptual and practical. At the end of the workshop, participants will be familiar with the central concepts of statistics (seen from a Social Science point of view) and will have acquired skills with statistical tools and the statistical package SPSS.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a sound basis of knowledge and skills with statistics applied to the Social Sciences for participants who never had the chance to learn statistics or need a more practical introduction.

Workshop content:

Topics of this workshop include:

During the lab sessions participants will learn to apply the tools presented during the course to a variety of typical Social Science problems using the Statistical Package SPSS.

Prerequisites

As this is an introductory course, there are no specific prerequesites for this workshop.


Please note that when you register for this workshop you should not register at the same time for the Preliminary Workshop as you do not yet have the skills and knowledge that are reviewed and brushed up there, but if you come back next year you definitively might consider taking it!


 

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