@article{Brayfield_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={SOCIOLOGY 304: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH ANALYSIS}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sociology-304-introduction-to-research-analysis}, abstractNote={This course provides basic training in quantitative and qualitative analysis, with an emphasis on descriptive and inferential statistics with social science applications. Students will use statistical techniques and SPSS computer software to organize data, test empirical hypotheses, and evaluate evidence. Lectures and applied laboratory sessions cover the following topics: measurement, tabular and graphic displays of data, measures of central tendency and dispersion, normal distribution, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, bivariate distributions, OLS regression, and content analysis.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Brayfield, April}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }