66-106 Applied Quantitative Social Science I (QSSS students)

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

The first course in the QSSS core sequence provides a fastpaced introduction to a range of methods in the quantitative social sciences. Organized around a set of case studies, the course introduces the language and methods of empirical research through a combination of seminarstyle discussions of academic papers, and handson lab work using the statistical software R. Students will replicate results from a highprofile labor market discrimination paper, explore agentbased models of neighborhood segregation, and scrape Wikipedia data to examine imbalances in gender representation. Enrollment restricted to QSSS students.

Prerequisites: none listed

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