318.610.01
Statistical Analysis for Policy Making I
Course Status
Discontinued
Course Status
Discontinued
Location
East Baltimore
Term
1st Term
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2018 - 2019
Instruction Method
TBD
Wednesday, 5:30 - 8:30pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Michael Giandrea
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Introduces the basic concepts and methods of statistics as applied to public policy analysis. Demonstrates methods of exploring, organizing and presenting data, and introduces measures of central tendencies, correlation, analysis of variance, and multivariate analysis. Introduces and employs the statistical package STATA, as well as Microsoft Excel to manipulate data and prepare students for the remaining course work in the sequence.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate the ability to apply fundamental concepts to data analysis
- Describe the basic concepts of probability and random variables
- Define the foundations for classical inference involving confidence intervals and hypothesis testing
- Apply inferential methods to the means of normal distributions
- Apply and interpret basic summary and modeling techniques for data