Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis I

Instructor(s): Lee Walker, Not applicable

The only prerequisite for this course is having skills in basic algebra. Participants who have weak mathematical backgrounds are advised to enroll in Mathematics for Social Scientists I simultaneously with this course. The instructional format for this four-week course is lecture combined with daily analyses performed by the participants, some using hand-held calculators and some using statistical software on a computer. Topics include data acquisition, classification, and summarization; basic probability; random variables and their distributions; and confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses for means, variances, proportions from one or two populations, and chi-square. The course will be taught at the level of the first 13 chapters of Applied Statistics by Neter, Wasserman, and Whitmore. Participants should bring calculators with additive memory and a square root function.