SOCI 300 - Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences (4)

This course is intended as a practical introduction to a variety of non-experimental quantitative techniques for doing social scientific research. Our most general goal is to give students the tools (1) to be producers of high-quality social scientific research using appropriate statistical tools and (2) to be thoughtful consumers of social scientific research produced by others. The course is divided into three units (1) a review of univariate statistics and simple bivariate analysis, (2) an introduction to hypothesis testing and inferential statistics, and (3) an overview of multivariate analytical logic and statistical techniques. Students will also learn how to apply these statistical tests in spatial analyses in GIS. Offered: Fall. (Formerly SOCI 420)