Quantitative Research Methods

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to quantitative skills, methodologies, and software necessary to analyze social science research questions and evaluate public policies. Students will learn the vocabulary associated with scientific thinking and research methods, data collection, data analysis, data presentation, and interpretation and discussion of analytical results. This is an introductory course in statistical analysis that covers the properties and characteristics of data and variables and presents both descriptive and inferential statistics.