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Course Description

This course provides an overview of the basic descriptive and inferential statistical techniques used in the analysis of social science research data. Students become familiar with organizing and analyzing data, communicating research results, translating statistical jargon into meaningful English, and understanding basic theories underlying statistics, such as elementary probability theory.

Learning outcomes

After successfully completing this course, students will be able to effectively use techniques in descriptive and inferential statistics. After having internalized the concepts underlying each technique, students should be able to accurately apply the appropriate technique to solve problems involving:

  • Various scales of measurement
  • Frequency distributions, tables, and graphs
  • Percentiles and percentile ranks
  • Measures of central tendency
  • Measures of variability
  • z-scores
  • Probability
  • Sampling distributions
  • Hypothesis testing
  • t-tests confidence intervals
  • Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
  • Correlation and regression
  • Chi-square
  • Various statistical techniques for ordinal data

Course topics

  • Part 1: Introduction and Descriptive Statistics
  • Part 2: Foundations of Inferential Statistics
  • Part 3: Inferences About Means and Mean Differences
  • Part 4: Correlations and Regression
  • Part 5: Nonparametric Tests

Required text and materials

Students are responsible for purchasing the required materials on their own:

  • Gravetter, F. J., Wallnau, L. B., Forzano, L. B., & Witnauer, J. E. (2021). Essentials of Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences (10th ed.). Nelson.
    Type: Textbook. ISBN: 9780357365298 / 9798214343198

NOTE: This item can be purchased directly from the following link.

Additional requirements

Calculator is required.

Assessments

Please be aware that should your course have a final exam, you are responsible for the fee to the online proctoring service, ProctorU, or to the in-person approved Testing Centre. Please contact exams@tru.ca with any questions about this.

To successfully complete this course, students must achieve a passing grade of 50% or higher on the overall course, and 50% or higher on the final mandatory exam.

Assignment 1: Introduction and Descriptive Statistics8%
Assignment 2: Foundations of Inferential Statistics10%
Assignment 3: Inferences About Means and Mean Differences16%
Assignment 4: Correlations and Regression8%
Assignment 5: Nonparametric Tests8%
Mandatory Final Exam50%
Total100%

Prerequisites

Pre-calculus 11; or MATH 0633; or MATH 1001

Recommended requisite(s)

It is recommended that psychology majors take PSYC 2101 before taking PSYC 2111.

Exclusions

  • STAT 2000
  • BIOL 3000
  • BUEC 2320
  • ECON 2320
  • PSYC 2100
  • SOCI 2710
  • STAT 1200
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Section Title
Statistics in the Social Sciences
Section Schedule
Any Time (30 weeks duration)
Delivery
Online, self-paced  
Course Fee(s)
Canadian in BC/YT non-credit $548.39 Click here to get more information
Canadian outside BC/YT non-credit $657.47 Click here to get more information
International Student non-credit $1,661.15 Click here to get more information
Available for Credit
3 credits

Open Learning faculty member information

An Open Learning faculty member is available to assist students. Students will receive the necessary contact information at the start of the course.

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