Statistics

Part I Descriptive statistics: basic descriptive statistics - percentages, ratios & rates, tables, charts & graphs; measures of central tendency; measures of dispersion; the normal curve. Part II Inferential statistics: introduction to inferential statistics - sampling & the sampling distribution; estimation procedures; hypothesis testing I - the one-sample case; hypothesis testing II - the two-sample case; hypothesis testing III - the analysis of variance; hypothesis testing IV - chi square; hypothesis testing V - nonparametric tests for variables measured at the ordinal level. Part III Measures of association: bivariate association - introduction & basic concepts; association between variables measured at the nominal level; association between variables measured at the ordinal level; association between variables measured at the interval-ratio level. Part IV Multivariate techniques: elaborating bivariate tables; partial correlation and multiple regression and correlation. Appendices: area under the normal curve; distribution of t; distribution of chi square; distribution of F; a table of random numbers; an introduction to SPSS for windows; code library for the general social survey, 1996; basic mathematics review; answers to odd-numbered computational problems.