SOAN 3120 Chapter Notes -Sampling Distribution, Scientific Calculator, Statistical Hypothesis Testing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3120
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

E-mail: mdumas@uoguelph. ca (course code required in subject line) This course aims to introduce students to descriptive and inferential statistical techniques used in social research. The primary goal of the course is to introduce students to the fundamentals of statistical reasoning and the role of statistics in social research. At the end of the term, students will acquire the skills necessary to perform basic analyses and to evaluate quantitative analyses in research literature in the social sciences. Class time will be devoted primarily to lectures, which seek to explain the general principles and fundamental procedures, but also to reviewing homework (on. There will be 3 assignments required for the course, each worth 5%. They will be available through courselink and will require you to hand in a hard copy; one or more of these assignments will require the use of spss. There is access to spss in the computer lab in mack-028.