Social Statistics Using R

1 Course Unit

This course will serve two joint purposes: (1) it will introduce students to statistics, with a focus on how they are used in social science research; (2) it will introduce students to R, an open-source, free software for statistical computing. When students complete this course, they will be able to perform various numerical and graphical tasks to describe a variable, and to summarize the distribution of a variable using measures of central tendency and spread. They will also be able to use correlation and regression to describe the relationship between two variables. Mutually Exclusive: SOCI 2010 1 Course Unit