Overview
Lecturer
Vlad Zeno Millea
Seminar tutor
Vlad Zeno Millea
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Sociology
Field of study
Sociology
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, examples, conversation, demonstration
Aims
Deepening students' ability to build and manage databases correctly using the usual statistical analysis software
Correct use of the main data analysis techniques, in particular frequency distribution analysis, correlation and regression
Acquiring skills for sociological interpretation of statistical outputs ("reading" tables, graphs and indicators of correlation, regression, etc.)
Course contents
1. Introduction to statistics
2. The role of statistics in scientific research
3. The use of statistics in the profession of sociologist
4 Frequency distributions
5 Graphical presentation of frequency distributions
6 Central trend indicators
7. Dispersion indicators
8 Normal distribution
9 Introductory notions of inferential statistics
10 Correlation and correlation coefficient
11 Linear regression for two variables
12 The general idea of regression
13 The regression line equation
14 Quality of estimation
Learning outcomes
Acquisition by students of the skills of statistical analysis of variables and their relationships using, mainly, the usual statistical procedures, such as univariate analysis of quantitative characteristics, correlation, regression analysis
Assessment
Elaboration of a paper for 2 hours that reflects 60% of the final grade and an analysis of a database that reflects 40% of the final grade
Recommended reading
Social Statistics: Manifestation of Growth, Hardcover
Ashmita Gupta
Primus Books, -, - · -
Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, Global Edition
Alan Agresti
Pearson Higher Education, -, 2017 · 568
Statistics for the Social Sciences
R. Mark Sirkin
SAGE Publications Inc, -, 2005 · 632