Statistics is a set of procedures for organizing, displaying, and interpreting data.
We will first discuss the collection, description, and presentation of data. Then the remainder of the course will be devoted to hypothesis testing and some of the techniques used to test hypotheses. Although most of the studies we will discuss come from the social sciences, the methods presented in this course can be applied to many other fields. This course will emphasize statistical thinking. We will aim for conceptual understanding rather than mastery of mathematical minutiae.