STAT 401 or STAT 420. Not open to students who have completed STAT 440. Simple random sampling, sampling for proportions, estimation of sample size, sampling with varying probabilities of selection, stratification, systematic selection, cluster sampling, double sampling, and sequential sampling. Not open to students who have completed SOCY 601. Emphasis is on applications of statistics.
Students complete data analytic exercises using real data.
Not open to SOCY students who have completed SOCY 602. Statistical analyses based on the general linear model. Emphasis on applications of these analytic procedures to real data. First course in a two term sequence in applied statistical methods covering topics such as regression, analysis of variance, categorical data, and survival analysis. Builds on the introduction to linear models and data analysis provided in Statistical Methods I. Topics include analysis of longitudinal data and time series, categorical data analysis and contingency tables, logistic regression, log-linear models for counts, statistical methods in epidemiology, and introductory life testing.