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SOC WORK 705

BASIC STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL WORK

3 credits.

An overview of statistical methods covering the topics required for social work professional degrees, such as distributions, standard error, regression, correlation assumptions and limitations, and basic ideas of experimental design.

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Requisites: Graduate/professional standing or declared in the Preparation for Admission to Graduate or Professional School Program Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage in Practice Informed Research and Research Informed Practice Audience: Graduate 2. Use basic statistical concepts in measurement, sampling, probability, and data description, presentation, and interpretation. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply various approaches to asking research questions, explore relationships between and among variables, and test hypotheses using basic bivariate and multivariate analytical techniques. Audience: Graduate 4. Develop foundational skills to be a critical consumer of empirical research involving quantitative data. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage in Practice Informed Research and Research Informed Practice Audience: Graduate 2. Use basic statistical concepts in measurement, sampling, probability, and data description, presentation, and interpretation. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply various approaches to asking research questions, explore relationships between and among variables, and test hypotheses using basic bivariate and multivariate analytical techniques. Audience: Graduate 4. Develop foundational skills to be a critical consumer of empirical research involving quantitative data. Audience: Graduate

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