1: Intro to Statistics

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1. describe the role and place of statistics in social research

2. differentiate between statistics as a science and statistics as a data

3. explain and differentiate between the main types of statistics (descriptive, inferential, measures of association and correlation)

4. define and classify variables by levels of measurement

5. identify and classify variables by units of measurement

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• level of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)

• unit of measurement

• discreet and continuous

• Healey-Ch1 (I'm making this available since students don't usually have this chapter on hand)