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SOCG 205. Quantitative Methods I (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/SOC.html#socg205

Description

This course covers some of the elementary techniques used 1) to select random samples, 2) to detect statistical patterns in the sample data, and 3) to determine whether any patterns found in sample data are statistically significant. The course also stresses the benefits and drawbacks of survey and aggregate data and some common ways in which these data are used incorrectly. Prerequisites: graduate standing in sociology.

Prerequisite courses

SOCG 205 has no prerequisite courses.

Successor courses

No courses have SOCG 205 as a prerequisite.