SOAN 222 - Data Science Tools for Social Policy

FDR: SC
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: One of the following: SOAN 218, SOAN 219, INTR 202, ECON 202, DCI 202, BIOL 201, CBSC 250, or MATH 310; or instructor consent. Students learn about how we think about and estimate causal effects, and practice important contemporary techniques with real data, culminating in reports analyzing the effects of a policy intervention of their choice. All work will be done in R. No previous experience with R is required, but some basic previous exposure to linear regression will be helpful. Eastwood.