Course Overview
This beginner course in statistics introduces you to the principles behind the many statistical practices such as sampling, variables, and inference, and shows how these concepts fit into the research design process. It helps to build a mental map to enable you to work your way through statistical tests and procedures.
Learning Outcomes
This course will help you to:
- Identify and recognize the different types of variables and the factors involved in choosing types of variables
- Interpret and summarize a set of values for a variable
- Identify relationships between variables in graphs
- Ask the right questions about relationships between variables and describe their existence, their sign, and their strength
- Identify how the process of sampling determines the degree of uncertainty you will have in your result
- Choose a suitable form of sampling for your projects, evaluating the degree of uncertainty in your chosen form of sampling
- Describe what happens to uncertainty in statistical analysis
- Apply a null hypothesis test, evaluate the results, and recognize the limitations of null hypothesis testing
- Select the appropriate statistics test for your research, explain the logical structure of a statistics test and results, and report these results