CRP 1200 - Introduction to Statistics for Urban Studies

(MQL-AG, OPHLS-AG)

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will receive credit for only one course in the following group: AEM 2100, BTRY 3010, BTRY 6010, CRP 1200, ENGRD 2700, HADM 2010, HADM 2011, ILRST 2100, ILRST 6100, MATH 1710, PUBPOL 2100, PUBPOL 2101, PSYCH 2500, SOC 3010, STSCI 2100, STSCI 2150, STSCI 2200.
N. Brooks.

The course will introduce students to descriptive and inferential statistics, which includes graphical tools and numerical measures, to understand places and well-being of people. Students will learn how to use statistics to illuminate our understanding of the world, evaluate policy and forecast. Students will learn how to link theories to empirical testing. Students will be introduced to excel, R and STATA and explore how these different programs are complementary. The course will expose students to a set of the most important publicly available datasets used in the urban studies content.