Admission Requirements
This course is open to:
Students of the bachelor’s programme CADS
Premaster’s CADS admitted for this specific course during their application procedure
Language of Instruction
Lectures are given in English.
Tutorials: First-year bachelor students of CADS have chosen their preferred language of instruction for tutorials during their application. Premaster’s students follow the groups in English. Contract students must indicate their preferred language of instruction for tutorials during their application.
Exams are in the same language as the tutorials.
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to quantitative analysis for anthropologists. The following topics will be discussed and practised in IBM SPSS Statistics:
Introduction to descriptive statistics: variables and measurement level; univariate analyses; displaying distributions using graphs
Discrete stochastic variables; expected value and variance; probability density function, distribution function
Sample distributions for numbers and proportions
Introduction to bivariate analysis
Introduction to inferential statistics, Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
Assessment of hypotheses; significance level, critical area, alpha and beta errors
Statistical tests for correlation and for the comparison of group means
Critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
Course Objectives
This course will help you to:
Acquire knowledge of univariate analysis
Learn to determine appropriate central tendency measures and variable distributions with SPSS and learn how to interpret them based on the research question and the level of measurement of the variables
Acquire knowledge of bivariate analysis
Learn to choose appropriate statistical tests for correlation and comparison of group means and learn to carry out the tests through SPSS, correctly report and interpret the outcomes based on the research question, the level of measurement, and the possible assumptions (parametric or non-parametric)
Develop the capacity to reflect critically on Null Hypothesis Significance Testing and the role of statistics in scientific research and societal debates
Schedule
See our website
Registering for Exams
First-year CADS students: registration for lectures, tutorials, and exams is NOT necessary as students will be registered by the Student Services Centre (SSC).
Other students must register for the lectures and examinations, but not for tutorials.
Registration periods and further information about procedures are given on the website on course registration.
Mode of Instruction
This is a 5 ECTS course (140 study hours [sbu])
Lectures: 14 × 3 hours * 1,5 = 63 sbu
Tutorials (mandatory): 7 × 2 hours * 2 = 28 sbu
Literature ca. 350 pages = 49 sbu
Assessment Method
This course will be assessed by an exam and tutorial assignments. Participation in tutorials is mandatory.
Brightspace
Brightspace is the digital learning environment of Leiden University. Brightspace gives access to course announcements and electronic study material. Assignments will also be submitted in Brightspace. Announcements about and changes to courses are made using Brightspace. Students are advised to check Brightspace daily to remain informed about rooms, schedules, deadlines, and details of assignments. Lecturers assume that all students read information posted on Brightspace.
How to login:
The homepage for Brightspace is: Brightspace
Please log in with your ULCN-account and personal password. On the left you will see an overview of My Courses.
For access to your courses in Brightspace you need to be registered in uSis for those courses.
Literature
Field, Andy 2018 Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (fifth edition). Sage Publications Ltd.
Lecture sheets (made available via Brightspace).
It is assumed that students will be familiar with the course literature for ‘Social Science Research in Practice’.