SOC 209 - Statistical Reasoning for Social Science

An applied introduction to univariate and multivariate statistical analysis in the social sciences. Emphasis will be upon rationales, interpretations and applications of quantitative logical and methods. Topics include distributions, central tendencies, variance, probability, sampling, hypothesis testing, association and correlation, ANOVA, regression, categorical data analysis and selected advanced topics. This course is a prerequisite to SOC 310. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or SOC 150 3 credits