SOC 3010 - Evaluating Statistical Evidence

(crosslisted)
(also SOC 6010) (MQR)

Fall. 4 credits.

Forbidden Overlap: Students may receive credit for only one course in the following group: AEM 2100, ILRST 2100/STSCI 2100, MATH 1710, PAM 2100, PSYCH 3500, SOC 3010. Prerequisite: Arts and Sciences students only.

M. Brashears.

This course will introduce students to the theory and mathematics of statistical analysis. Many decisions made by ourselves and others around us are based on statistics, yet few people have a solid grip on the strengths and limitations of these techniques. This course will provide a firm foundation for statistical reasoning and logical inference using probability. While there is math in this course, it is not a math class per se, as a considerable amount of attention is devoted to interpreting statistics as well as calculating them.