- Statistics for the Social Sciences

Catalog description

This course covers the fundamental skills necessary for understanding statistics as a tool of science, with an emphasis on quantitative literacy. Students learn the basics of organizing and describing data (descriptive statistics) and making predictions about large groups from smaller samples of data (inferential statistics). In this course, students learn to enter, analyze, and interpret data via a statistical package. Students learn to critically evaluate data sets and become better consumers of data that they encounter in the real world.