Swiss Summer School 2019

Eugène Horber
Statistics with SPSS for Social Scientists

Eugène Horber was, before he retired, professor of methodology at the Department of political science and International relations, University of Geneva. He holds a PhD degree in Political Science and has taught social science methodology (both quantitative and qualitative), applied computer science, and statistics at the University of Geneva, as well as Exploratory Data Analysis at 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 qualitative 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 statistical software (SPSS).

The aim of this workshop is to provide sound foundations 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 (afternoons) participants will learn to apply the tools presented during the course to a variety of typical Social Science problems using the Statistical Package SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics).

Prerequisites

As this is an introductory course, there are no particular prerequesites for this workshop, except of course motivation to learn and practice.


Please note that when you register for this workshop you should not register for the Preliminary Workshop as the goal of the preliminary workshop is to brush up and review the skills and knowledge covered by this introductory workshop.




[Back] [Workshop Programme]
EH