PSY/STATS 263: Statistics for Social Sciences (Psychology)
Course description
An introductory course in understanding, applying, and interpreting statistics. The course will focus on the assumptions and concepts behind common statistical techniques in order to understand how and why statistics are used across various disciplines. Basic descriptive and inferential statistics are covered including measures of central tendency and variability, t-tests, analysis of variance, chi square correlation and simple regression.
To quote from a statistics textbook, this course is going to "mangle your means, torture your t-distribution, dangle your data, violate your variables and corrupt your correlations." In short, this course will hopefully teach you how, when and why to apply "sadistic statistics" to real problems. It will be an introductory course in understanding, applying and interpreting statistics.
Learning objectives
To understand the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics.
To understand the differences in levels of measurement.
To understand the meaning of specified statistics.
To understand the appropriate applications for statistical techniques.
To manipulate data within statistical techniques.
To utilize the computer for the analysis of data.
To be able to interpret and present statistical results.
To gain insight into issues of cultural diversity and social justice of enduring importance across national and cultural boundaries in pre-modern Europe.