Prerequisites: Restricted to Social Work PhD students; Students in other LUC Doctoral programs may register for the course with approval from the School of Social Work Doctoral Program Director.
This course is the first in a two-semester sequence of statistics courses required of all social work doctoral students. The course covers basic statistical concepts of probability, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and statistical inference. The focus for the course is the applied use of statistical methods for the analysis of social science data using SPSS and manual calculations. In addition to covering applied statistical concepts and their application to data, the course will also critically examine the question of causality.
Outcomes: Understand basic statistical concepts of probability, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and statistical inference, including z-tests, t-tests, ANOVA, and Chi-square; Examine critically the question of causality; Demonstrate critical thinking around how statistics and quantitative analysis can be used to both marginalize and empower racial, ethnic, and other identity and/or geographic community groups.
This course is the first in a two-semester sequence of statistics courses required of all social work doctoral students. The course covers basic statistical concepts of probability, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and statistical inference. The focus for the course is the applied use of statistical methods for the analysis of social science data using SPSS and manual calculations. In addition to covering applied statistical concepts and their application to data, the course will also critically examine the question of causality.
Outcomes: Understand basic statistical concepts of probability, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and statistical inference, including z-tests, t-tests, ANOVA, and Chi-square; Examine critically the question of causality; Demonstrate critical thinking around how statistics and quantitative analysis can be used to both marginalize and empower racial, ethnic, and other identity and/or geographic community groups.