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ILRST 5100 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences I

Fall. 3 credits. T. DiCiccio.

A first course in statistics for graduate students in the social sciences. Descriptive statistics, probability and sampling distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, simple linear regression, and correlation. Students are instructed on the use of a statistics computer package at the beginning of the term and use it for weekly assignments.