SW 38 Social Statistics and Data Analysis for Social Workers

This course introduces you to the basics of social statistics—techniques that social scientists use to summarize numeric data obtained from censuses, surveys, and experiments. The course will familiarize students with the basic concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics. Students will be exposed to elementary data analysis techniques, which use statistics in order to interpret findings reported in the social work research literature.The topics include frequency distribution, central tendency, variability, probability theory, and estimation. GE 3A.

Credits

3

Distribution

SW