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This course is designed as an introduction to basic descriptive and inferential statistics, with a focus on how they are used in education research. Students will learn to describe variables using graphs and tables, and summarize variable distribution using measures of central tendency and spread. As a basis for inferential statistics, students will explore concepts of basic probability, and apply them to understand probability sampling, sampling distribution, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. Finally, students will learn to describe the relationship between two variables using correlation and regression. Students will apply this knowledge to a series of problem sets that ask them to think about research problems in education, and conduct their own analysis of an educational or other social science problem in a research paper that asks them to conduct a bivariate analysis and discuss their results.