Statistics for the Social Sciences

education, courses · EN

This podcast is for Wayne State College students taking SSC 319 Statistics for the Social Sciences. Episodes take listeners through the structure and design of the course (including the syllabus and Canvas site), descriptive and inferential statistics, and a range of different statistical tests for samples and populations. Topics covered include basic descriptive statistics measures such as mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation; the structure of research papers and how to ensure data used for analyses is reliable and valid; and numerous statistical tests including the one-sample test, t-tests, ANOVAs, and regression analysis.