# Unit 1: Description


• 1: Introduction to Behavioral Statistics
You might be tempted to skip this first chapter, but it includes lots of new vocabulary (or vocabulary that you know, but now they have technical definitions), so don't fall for that tempation!
• 2: What Do Data Look Like? (Graphs)
Humans aren't good at looking at a bunch of numbers and figuring out what they mean.  Instead, we should first look at the numbers as pictures.  This chapter will discuss graphing.
• 3: Descriptive Statistics
This chapter will show you how to describe a distribution of data with just a few numbers.
• 4: Distributions
There are kinds of distributions of data that are so common that they have a name.   Some distributions have special characteristics that are the underpinning of all of statistics.
• 5: Using z
Our first statistical analysis to answer a research question!
• 6: APA Style
You might know how to format a paper in MLA, but you're in the social sciences now!

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