Generally entering doctoral students take PH142 and PH145 during their first year in the doctoral program at the School of Social Welfare at U. C. Berkeley. However, sometimes a student may wish to take a more advanced class. In order to help you determine which class is most appropriate for you, we have put together some assessment materials.

PH 142

Topics covered
1. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion for Ungrouped Data
2. Descriptive Statistics: Grouped Data.
3. Probability: Definitions and Theorems
4. Probability: Sampling with Replacement
5. Random Variables: Expectation and Variance
6. Discrete Probability Distributions
7. Continuous Probability Distribution: the normal distribution
8. Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing
9. Statistical Inference: Interval Estimation
10. Statistical Inference: Hypotheses Concerning Means
11. Chi Square Tests: Two way classification
12. Chi Square Tests: Goodness of Fit
13. Linear Regression: Least Squares Estimates of a Line
14. Inference on Regression Parameters
15. Correlation Coefficients

Texts:
These texts will give you an idea of the material covered in the course and the level of difficulty. Read through the text and see if you can solve the problems at the end of the chapters.

Agresti & Finlay Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
Moore & McCabe Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

Click here to see Practice Midterm Question for PH142

Click here to see information about PH145

Please see your advisor if you would like to take a placement assessment exam for PH142 or PH145

For information on the placement process, you may email Claudia Waters at claudiaw@berkeley.edu or Maureen Lahiff at lahiff@berkeley.edu.