This course is an introduction to quantitative methods as applied to statistical reporting and data analysis. It incorporates some or all of the following: Techniques for obtaining, analyzing and presenting data in numerical form; measures of central tendency and dispersion; the normal distribution curve; standard scores; applicability of probability and sampling theory to statistical research; interpretation of confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; correlation; linear regression.  The figure to the left gives a simple population distribution and the corresponding sampling distribution of sample means from samples of size 15.