Chapter 12 Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• explain how political scientists use descriptive and inferential statistics to link quantitative data to arguments in political science;
• conduct and interpret selected univariate analyses and use univariate analyses to compare individuals and subgroups; and
• state the four questions we must answer when assessing whether there is a relationship between two variables and apply this logic to interpret bivariate analyses.