STATISTICS FOR HISTORIANS COURSE
UNIT 6: HYPOTHESIS TESTING

Distributions and Hypothesis Testing

This session runs in an interactive notebook on MyBinder. Click for more information on how to access and run a notebook. An overview of all interactive materials is available here.

In this section, we move from descriptive to inferential statistics. We assess the statistical 'significance' of the gendered differences observed in the previous notebook (on descriptive statistics). We pursue a data-driven and intuitive approach to significance testing. First, We "bootstrap" confidence intervals and then explore permutation for hypothesis testing.​

KEY READINGS
* Konrad Jarausch, Kenneth Hardy, Quantitative Methods for Historians: A Guide to Research, Data, & Statistics (1991)
* Roderick Floud, An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians (1973)
* Paul Kellstedt, Guy Whitten, The Fundamentals of Political Science Research (2008)
* Robert Fogel and Geoffrey Elton, Which Road to the Past? Two Views of History (1984)
[This book is a debate between an outspoken quantifier, and historian critical of quantification]


EXERCISES
Exercises are integrate dinto the above lectures.