Statistics for the Social Sciences
This podcast is for Wayne State College students taking SSC 319 Statistics for the Social Sciences. Episodes take listeners through the structure and design of the course (including the syllabus and Canvas site), descriptive and inferential statistics, and a range of different statistical tests for samples and populations. Topics covered include basic descriptive statistics measures such as mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation; the structure of research papers and how to ensure data used for analyses is reliable and valid; and numerous statistical tests including the one-sample test, t-tests, ANOVAs, and regression analysis.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2025
Sharks, Ice Cream... and Why Correlation Ain't Causation
Hey there all, and welcome back for Episode 6 on correlation! For this week and episode, we're going to cover a few initial concepts that need to be more directly discussed: variables (including inde…
Just Picture It (Your Data That Is!)
Howdy ho everyone! Welcome to our Week 3 episode on data visualization! In this episode, we will talk all things graphing-related: which graphs are best for showing raw data (histograms), showing cha…
How Different is our Data?
Hello stats course members, and welcome to episode #4! In this episode, we spend a little over 20 minutes talking about different measures of variation or the measures we can use to understand how di…
The 3Ms: Mean, Median, and Mode
Howdy all, and welcome back! In this episode, we begin our discussion and learning about measures of central tendency which are part of what we would consider to be descriptive statistics. We are spe…
What are Descriptive and Inferential Statistics?
Hi all, and welcome to the second episode of our podcast on Statistics for the Social Sciences! In this episode, we're going to take a little bit of time to further discuss/investigate the syllabus b…
Introduction to our Course and Canvas
Hello everyone and welcome to our podcast on Statistics for the Social Sciences! In this first episode, we will get an introduction to this course and in particular to the course Canvas site. Some of…