STATISTICS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.

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Pre-requisites: MATH proficiency required; MATH 121 recommended. Introduces the theory and procedures underlying the use of statistics in the social sciences. During the first half of the class, methods are presented for organizing distributions, summarizing their key properties, conveying the relative standing of individual scores in distributions, and measuring relations between pairs of variables. Commonly used procedures for testing hypotheses in the social sciences are presented in the second half of the class.