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This course develops logical, empirically based arguments using statistical techniques and analytic methods.

FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos

305 years, 6 months

Units & Quizzes

11

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Certificate of Completion

Elementary statistics, probability, and other types of quantitative reasoning useful for description, estimation, comparison, and explanation are covered. Emphasis is on the use and limitations of analytical techniques in planning practice.

Course Currilcum

  • Course overview; epistemological foundations; math review Unlimited
  • What’s in a number?; basic numeracy; measurement Unlimited
  • Measures of variability Unlimited
  • Exploratory data analysis and visualization Unlimited
  • Cross-tabulations; χ2 tests Unlimited
  • Scatterplots; correlation; cause and effect; confounding variables Unlimited
  • Simple regression Unlimited
  • The assumptions of regression analysis Unlimited
  • Review/slack; presentation and graphs Unlimited
  • Talking about money Unlimited
  • Lattice plots Unlimited