Statistics

Catalog description

This course will provide a theoretical background and practical experience to statistics for psychology and other behavioral sciences. Statistics are the tools we use to summarize and describe the world around us and to explore the causal processes at work. Understanding statistics and how they are used and misused is vital to assimilating information as an informed citizen, as well as pursuing a career in the behavioral sciences or similar fields. In this course will cover topics including: principles of measurement, measures of central tendency and variability, probability and distributions, correlation and regression, hypothesis testing, t-tests, analysis of variance, and chi-square tests. You will learn and use computer programs to help you understand and perform select statistical analyses.