Course Description
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, SOC 005
5 Units, Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 004 with a grade of C- or better; or consent of instructor. Covers logical and procedural aspects of the application of statistical methods for data reduction and hypothesis testing in sociology. Includes distributions, tabulations, central tendency, variability, independence, contrasts, correlation and regression, and nonparametrics.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Riverside, Sociology
Course Credit:
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UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Unit Credit
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit
UC Merced:
units toward degree (See your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
Course Equivalence: UCR SOC 005
UC San Diego:
Unit Credit
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Course Equivalence: UCSB PSTAT 5A
General Education: Area C-Science, Mathematics, and Technology as well a Quantitative Relationships
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Prerequisites
SOC 004 with a grade of C- or better; or consent of instructor
More About The Course
The required textbook is The Essentials of Statistics: A Tool for Social Research by Joseph F. Healey. 4th edition (2016). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 9781305093836
The software used for lab exercises is SPSS for Windows. Please install it on your computer before the lab starts.
Course Creators
Wei Zhao
