SOC 118 - Basic Statistics in the Social Sciences

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2013 and alternate years.

Introductory statistics course designed to help students become good consumers of statistics, but especially geared for students interested in sociology, archeology, and anthropology. Course is aimed to help students engage in hypothesis-testing. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, sampling, and regression analysis. Students also get practical experience with cleaning and analyzing real world secondary data. Chin.