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Advanced Quantitatitve Methods
Advanced Quantitative Methods
Building up on the material covered in Quantitative Analysis, this course introduces advanced methods of quantitative analysis. Starting off with models estimated with maximum likelihood, the course introduces other estimation techniques, including Bayesian statistics.
In this seminar staff members of the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) and external guests present and discuss their research.
This course provides an introduction to methods for supervised and unsupervised learning for the social sciences.
This seminar builds on the MACIS seminar on political violence and covers primarily the quantitative literature on civil and regional wars, especially with respect to the effect of economic and ethnic factors, political institutions and the geographic and international context. The students will develop an original research question to be dealt with in a research paper.
This research seminar covers the current literature on conflicts, including civil wars and the problem of establishing political order in such settings. We explore the effect of democratization efforts and institutional arrangements. The students are required to present their own research findings in a seminar paper that will serve as a basis for an oral presentation.
Research Seminar: Political Order and Regional Conflict I
Political Order and Regional Conflict I (Forschungsseminar)
Conflict patterns in the world suggest that regions play an important role. Certain regions of the world appear especially conflict-prone and establishing political order and democratic institutions has proven to be difficult. This research seminar covers the current literature on conflicts, including civil wars and other societal conflicts, and the problem of establishing political order.