{"c_title":"[941.614B] Statistical Methods for Planning","c_info":"3 credits | Lecture\/Seminar | Master | Dept. of Environmental Planning","c_summary":"This course is designed to provide students with the basics of research design and quantitative analysis in spatial planning and social science. The goal of this course is to give an understanding of the use statistical methods to answer the questions of various problems in urban and regional scale. This course will cover the basics of theory and research design, including how to identify a viable research question, to formulate a theory and derive hypotheses. This course\u2019s emphasis will be on formulating problems as statistical models and the proper interpretation of analytic results. The course will consist of both lecture and lab. The lecture will focus on developing basic understanding of the purpose, rationale, and usage of the various statistical analyses. The lab\u2019s primary purpose is to provide students first-hand experience in conducting and interpreting multivariate statistical analyses using SPSS, STATA, HLM and other statistical software."}