Data Analysis for Social Scientists

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132 h

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De www.edx.org

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11 sequências
Advanced Level
Começa em 4 outubro 2021
Termina em 20 dezembro 2021

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Programa de Estudos

14.310x – Data Analysis for Social Scientists

Week One: Introduction
Week Two: Fundamentals of Probability, Random Variables, Joint Distributions and Collecting Data
Week Three: Describing Data, Joint and Conditional Distributions of Random Variables
Week Four: Functions and Moments of a Random Variables & Intro to Regressions
Week Five: Special Distributions, the Sample Mean, the Central Limit Theorem
Week Six: Assessing and Deriving Estimators - Confidence Intervals, and Hypothesis Testing
Week Seven: Causality, Analyzing Randomized Experiments, & Nonparametric Regression
Week Eight: Single and Multivariate Linear Models
Week Nine: Practical Issues in Running Regressions, and Omitted Variable Bias
Week Ten: Endogeneity, Instrumental Variables, and Experimental Design
Week Eleven: Intro to Machine Learning and Data Visualization
Optional: Writing an Empirical Paper

Pré-requisito

No prior preparation in probability and statistics is required, but familiarity with algebra and calculus is assumed.

Instrutores

Esther Duflo
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
MIT

Sara Fisher Ellison
Senior Lecturer, Economics
MIT

Editor

O Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) é um instituto de investigação e uma universidade americana especializada em ciência e tecnologia. Situado em Cambridge, Massachusetts, nos arredores de Boston, no nordeste dos Estados Unidos, o MIT é frequentemente considerado como uma das universidades mais importantes do mundo.

Publica a Technology Review, uma revista científica dedicada à engenharia, ciência e inovação.

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