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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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Separate File
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For graduate students who wish additional understanding of techniques, problems, and issues involved in the design and conduct of experimental social research. Considers strengths and weaknesses of various experimental designs, artifacts and their control, problems in going from the laboratory to the field, and ethical issues.
Prerequisite:
SOC 504-505 and SOC 508, SOC 509, or equivalents
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3.00 Credits
Theory construction and testing from a causal models perspective. Path analysis, standardized versus unstandardized measures, feedback models, identification problems, estimation in overidentified models, difference equations, differential equations, stability conditions. Multiplicative models as alternatives to additive ones. Causal approach to measurement error.
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3.00 Credits
Conceptualization and measurement problems in sociology, using major concepts as illustrations of basic issues. Causal approach to measurement to deal with problems of indirect measurement, cross-level measurement problems, aggregation and disaggregation. Consequences of crude measurement for data analyses.
Prerequisite:
SOC 504; recommended: SOC 506
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3.00 Credits
Raftery
Prerequisite:
SOC 506
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3.00 Credits
Structural equation models for the social sciences, including specification, estimation, and testing. Topics include path analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, linear models with latent variables, MIMIC models, nonrecursive models, models for nested data. Emphasizes applications to substantive problems in the social sciences. Offered: jointly with CS&SS 526.
Prerequisite:
SOC 504, SOC 505, SOC 506 or equivalent; recommended: CS&SS 505 and CS&SS 506, or equivalent
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
Separate File
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3.00 Credits
Raftery Log-linear modeling of multidimensional contingency tables. Logistic regression. Applications to social mobility, educational opportunity, and assortative marriage. Applied and computing focus. Offered: jointly with STAT 536/CS&SS 536.
Prerequisite:
SOC 504, SOC 505, SOC 506, or equivalent; recommended: CS&SS 505 and CS&SS 506, or equivalent
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3.00 Credits
Seminar and practicum in computational modeling of social processes with emphasis on using agent-based simulation models to investigate and refine theory.
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3.00 Credits
Specialized problems in demography or ecology are covered; for example, migration, fertility, mortality, language, race and ethnic relations, metropolitan community. See quarterly announcement for specific problem to be covered.
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