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SOC 117 - Statistics for Social Scientists

4 credits
This course introduces you to the basics of social statistics—techniques that sociologists and other social scientists use to summarize numeric data obtained from censuses, surveys, and experiments. The course makes uses hand held calculators and social science topics to teach students the techniques and appropriate use of statistics. Course topics include frequency distributions, central tendency, variability, probability theory, and estimation. You will also learn how to test hypotheses for group differences in means (z test, t test), for association between two variables (correlation, chi-square test), and for the basics of regression analysis. Permission of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: SOC 101 . CLA-Quantitative


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