450:080 - Statistics for Social Work

Institution:

University of Northern Iowa

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Description:

Data-analytic techniques appropriate to social work research. Reasons to learn statistics, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, levels of measurement, frequency tables and histograms, percentiles, Z-scores, inferential statistics, p-values, confidence intervals, Type I and Type II errors, chi-square, Pearson, Spearman, and point bi-serial correlations, shared variance, one-way ANOVA, multi-way ANOVA, linear regression, ANCOVA. Introduction to LISREL and basic epidemiological analyses including incidence, prevalence, relative risk, and odds-ratio. Prerequisite: completion of mathematics requirement for the Liberal Arts Core. (Variable)

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uni.edu

Phone Number:

(319) 273-2311

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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