Department of Statistics

Current Sections   Recent Instructors Woodard, Roger	ST 507	Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences I
	Course Description This course is intended to give students a background in the methods of statistical analysis that will assist them in analysis of data generated from research in the social sciences. Students will learn several methods for summarizing and describing data, in addition to techniques for using sample data to make inferences about a larger population. Course Syllabus Sampling Distribution and Summaries Probability Distributions Sampling Distributions Estimation Testing Parameters Two Sample Tests Categorial Data Correlation & Simple Linear Regression One-Way Analysis of Variance Course Prerequisites None Course Corequisites None Recent Textbooks Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, 3rd ed, by Alan Agresti and Barbara Finlay (ISBN 0-13-526526-6)