Understand the purpose and potential of statistics in social science

The aims of this course are to:

1. provide tools and skills to help students produce valid inferences about economic, social and political life

2. enhance student`s ability to evaluate and consider published research.

Weekly course topics:

10. Density curves and the Central Limit Theorem

11. Calculating z-scores

12. Introduction to Confidence Intervals

13. Confidence Intervals for Various Applications

14. Introduction to Hypothesis Tests

15. Hypothesis Tests for proportions & 2 Populations

16. Relationships Between Categorical Variables

17. Regression

18. Revision

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

1. Understand the purpose and potential of statistics in social science;
2. Distinguish between different types of variables;
3. Understand and apply basic methods of data description using SPSS;
4. Understand the principles of inference and apply them to practical problems;
5. Understand the logic and application of hypothesis testing and confidence intervals;
6. Understand the intuition behind regression analysis and be able to construct models using SPSS