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Introduction to R and RStudio (Gruber)
Statistics with SPSS for Social Scientists (Horber)
Introduction to STATA (Lipps/Kuhn)
Week 1: 11 – 15.08.2025 *
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Conducting a Grounded Theory Study (Balachandran Nair)
Ethnographic Methods (Conway)
Mastering Case-Study Research Designs: Before, During, and After Qualitative Data Collection (Gibbert)
Discourse Theory and Analysis (Mottier)
Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) (Davidov/Schmidt)
Causal Analysis with Observational Data (Grätz)
Using Social Network Analysis to Understand Data (Hills)
Multivariate Methods for Social Researchers (Horber)
Introduction to Machine Learning (Steenbergen)
Web Scraping and Data Mining in R (Walasek)
Mixed Methods (Bergman)
Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) (Mello)
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Integrating AI in the Qualitative Research Workflow Appropriately (Silver)
Qualitative Analysis of Interview Data (Drzewiecka)
Large Language Models for Social Science Research (Colavizza)
Content Analysis and Natural Language Processing (Hills)
Longitudinal Analysis with Panel Data (Lipps/Kuhn)
An Introduction to Bayesian Methods for the Social Sciences (Mira/Denti)
Survey Design and Implementation (Ochsner/Pollien/Stähli)
Creating Groups from Data. Cluster Analysis and Latent Class Analysis (Samuel)
Designing Experiments in the Social Sciences (Kittel)
Using methods to improve your theoretical arguments – bridging theory and methods with case studies and comparative research to develop more interesting theories (Beach)
How to Forge Arguments in Writing (Social Sciences) Scientific Paper (Lepori/Rocci)
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