This course provides an introduction to the quantitative methods social scientists use to collect and evaluate empirical data about society. Through this course you will learn to gather, describe, and analyze data with an emphasis on the application and interpretation of these methods. This course will also help you to be a more informed and critical reader of academic research, public opinion polling, and advertisement claims that present statistical evidence. Lecture slides and additional course material can be obtained by emailing [email protected] Audio Production by Kiehl Carlquist

Latest episodes of the podcast Statistics for the Social Sciences

• 1_Overview
• 2_Sampling
• 3_Experiments and Observations
• 4_Variables
• 5_Distributions and Relationships
• 6_Confidence Intervals (Part 1 of 2)
• 7_Confidence Intervals (Part 2 of 2)
• 8_Hypothesis Testing (Part 1 of 3)
• 9_Hypothesis Testing (Part 2 of 3)
• 10_Hypothesis Testing (Part 3 of 3)
• 11_Review
• 12_Normal Distributions
• 13_Inference for Categorical Variables (Part 1 of 2)
• 14_Inference for Categorical Variables (Part 2 of 2)
• 15_Inference for Quantitative Variables (Part 1 of 2)
• 16_Inference for Quantitative Variables (Part 2 of 2)
• 17_Chi Square Tests
• 18_ANOVA
• 19_Multiple Comparisons
• 20_Simple Linear Regression (Part 1 of 2)
• 21_Simple Linear Regression (Part 2 of 2)
• 22_Review
• 23_Multiple Regression (Part 1 of 2)
• 24_Multiple Regression (Part 2 of 2)