STATISTICS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES (2 CREDITS)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: identify   features of empirical approach in research; demonstrate  basic statistical analysis on given data; Write up of a short quantitative research paper.

Topics:

1. Introduction: Empirical Research in the Social Sciences;
2. Interview and Text as Data;
3. Survey #1;
4. Survey #2;
5. Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean;
6. Random Sampling;
7. Confidence Interval about the Mean;
8. One-Group t-test;
9. Two Group t-test;
10. Correlation and Linear Regression;
11. Multiple Correlation;
12. One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA);
13. Conclusion of the Course/Review.