Vilas Research Professor of Sociology
Center for Demography of Health and Aging
4430 Social Science Bldg.
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Office Hours: 2-4 pm Tuesday
(and by appointment)
Sociology 360 is a first course in statistics, covering basic concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics. The topics include graphical displays of data; summary statistics; the binomial and normal distributions; correlation and least squares; simple research designs; probability and random variables; and inferences about means, counts, and simple regression. Students will analyze and display small bodies of data using computers and calculators and will interpret and evaluate research findings.
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