CHYS 3P15 Lecture Notes - Statistical Theory, Stata, Multivariate Statistics

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 3P15
• Professor: Patricia Kirkpatrick

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Quantitative research methods in child and youth studies. Discussion of the course: syllabus & resources, text, cd; *textbooks, syllabus on sakai, lecture notes on sakai by tuesday night, lab assignment posted after lecture don"t start until lab. *you must bring textbook to lecture; we will use it for practice activities. * you probably also want a pen/pencil and paper. Haan: an introduction to statistics for canadian social scientists: why should i want to learn statistics, chapter 1. Haan: an introduction to statistics for canadian social scientists: basic math, chapter 2. Definitions: what is/are statistics, the science of collecting, displaying, and analyzing numerical data, what are data, the plural of datum, collections of numbers about a particular topic or set of topics, examples include age, sex, income, etc. In addition to being the science of collecting, displaying, and analyzing data, it is also the art of postulating relationships, and the science of identifying, assessing, and specifying the nature of these relationships.