Statistical Software Lab

Catalog description

Students apply statistical analysis employing statistical software. Students manipulate data to answer sociological questions. Students learn to create a data set and to use existing data sets, to execute a range of statistical operations using SPSS, to recode data, to create various graphical representations of data, to select cases and create subsamples, and to test hypotheses. Students will work with both existing public datasets as well as create their own smaller dataset.