SOC 6010 - Evaluating Statistical Evidence

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. Co-meets with SOC 3010.

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.