This course was taught between 2018 and 2025. It is replaced by a new course 'sampling and estimation' in 2026-2027, but I am leaving the materials here for archival reasons.
This course aims to give students a firm introduction in three broad, and related topics: (1) inference - how do we use small sets of data to produce knowledge about the world around us; (2) survey data analysis, in particular sampling and analyzing complex datasets; (3) survey design - why are surveys designed the way they are? The focus here is on the overall design of a study, not on the design of individual survey questions.