Subject(s): Statistical Theory -- Social sciences in Statistical methods. -- Political statistics. -- Descriptive statistics : Using POLTSTAT to do statistical analysis, presentation of data, summarizing data and using descriptive statistics -- Basic probability and probability distributions : Basic probability- theory and applications, sampling and normal distribution, central limit theorem -- Hypothesis testing : Inferential statistics, estimating means, proportions and sample size with confidence, validating hypothesis about a population mean using a sample, validating hypothesis - between two population means, about a single population proportion, about two population proportions -- Measures of association : Comparing more than two population means with ANOVA, comparing more than two proportions using Chi- square test, determination relationships for two variables using correlation, measuring relationships with simple regression analysis, measuring multivariate relationships with regression analysis, planning statistical research