Mathematical Foundations of Political Analysis

Preface

These are the course notes for Prof. Brenton Kenkel’s course PSCI 8350 at Vanderbilt University. The course covers the bare essential mathematical techniques needed for applied work in statistics and formal theory in political science.

This book is written in Quarto and published on GitHub Pages. You can find the Quarto source files on GitHub.

Acknowledgments: Special thanks to Vanderbilt PhD students Addison Emig and Kennedy Harrison for their careful read of the first few chapters, and their many helpful suggestions on how to make the notes more accessible to first-year students.