This course presents the conceptual basis and application of statistical analysis in social and behavioral research. It is divided into sections, descriptive and inferential statistics.
Descriptive statistics describe or summarize data.
The descriptive statistics we will cover in this class include frequency distributions and graphing, measures of central tendency and variability, linear regression and correlation. Inferential statistics, which are somewhat more complicated, use sample statistics to make inferences about a characteristic of a population. This includes hypothesis testing, z and t tests, analysis of variance, and chi-square. It is my hope that you will not find this course as difficult as you are perhaps anticipating that it will be. To this end, I am going to make several suggestions.