First of a two‐part introductory statistics sequence for doctoral students in SW & Social Welfare. Students will learn important theories and concepts behind key statistical methods and their applications to addressing social problems and issues and advancing social justice. Core topics covered in this course will include descriptive statistics, point estimation and confidence interval, central limit theorem and its role in inferential statistics, univariate statistical methods, and analysis of variance methods. Students will learn R statistical software for all analyses and class assignments.
This course will meet from 9:00-12:00 for the lecture component; break from 12:00-1:00; and a lab component from 1:00-2:00.
You must enroll in the lab component of this course; once enrolled in the lab (section 002), you will automatically be enrolled in the lecture component (section 001).
Students must be a SSW student or at the doctoral level to enroll in this class. If you are unable to enroll yourself, you must seek permission by submitting a Course Enrollment Petition through the SSW website: https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/course-enrollment-petition/
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