STA1021: Introduction to Statistics

Abstract

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to applied statistics for the social sciences Course content includes the basic concepts and terminology of statistics, the display of data, re search designs in social science, the basics of survey research methods, central tendency and variability, the basic logic of inferential statistics, t tests (one sample, independent means, and matched samples) correlation, regression, analysis of varianc e, interval estimation for means and other statistics, power and decision errors, and brief coverage of non parametric statistics.