STATISTICS FOR HISTORIANS COURSE
UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION
Lecture (14 Mins)










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 a historian critical of quantification]


EXERCISES
Alone, or with a friend, consider when you have used quantitative analysis in your own research. If you have, was there anything further you think the data might have been able to tell you? What sort of research questions would a social scientist - working with that same data - have been interested in? If you have not used statistical analysis before, are there any  research questions that you would like to study that might benefit from it?