ILRST 5050 - Statistics at Work

Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Enrollment limited to: MILR students.

M. Karns.

This course introduces MILR students to the critical analysis process involved in social science research and practice in the workplace. The uses of analytics, particularly in workforce development will be explored through a combination of statistical methods and application to case studies. Students will distinguish the stages of analytics, develop data summaries and evaluate the results with statistical tests. The hypothesis testing method and statistical decision-making will be reviewed. Statistical methods will include t-tests, chi-squares, regression models (linear, multiple, and logistic).

Statistical software will be used (SPSS or Minitab). Interpretation and understanding of results is emphasized through writing frequent, short data analysis reports with graphic representation of the results.