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CPSE
651

Statistics 1: Foundations

Hours

3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab

Semester

Fall, 
Spring
Emphasis on conceptual understanding and practical application of descriptive and basic inferential statistics to decision making.

Conceptual understanding of statistics

Gain a conceptual understanding of basic descriptive and inferential statistics for both parametric and non-parametric data sets.  

Hypothesis Testing

Understand hypothesis testing theory and probability distributions.

Basic statistical methods

Select appropriate statistical methods to answer basic research problems.

Complete Statistical Analysis

Use statistical programs to complete statistical analysis.

Interpret and report statistical results

Interpret and report statistical results in APA format.

Critique appropriateness of statistical methods used

Locate research articles and Critique the statistical methods used and reported.