One of the prerequisite requirements for FSMFN admission is an upper level undergraduate or graduate statistics course within the past ten years. The content of this course should include:
Descriptive (Univariate Data): continuous variables, the normal curve, means, standard deviations, categorical variables, measures of central tendency, variability, bivariate associations, odds ratio, standard scores and percentiles, frequency distributions, differences between means
Non-parametric Tests: chi-square
Correlation and Regression: correlation coefficients, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, linear regression
Inferential Statistics: paired t-tests, Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficients, analysis of variance (ANOVA), analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), discriminate analyses
Other: alpha level, internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha coefficients), statistical significance
The above are fairly common content in a graduate or upper level undergraduate statistics and research methods type course. The FSMFN online courses N404: Statistics contain this content. Students who would like to take a statistics course other than the one offered by the FSMFN should contact their Department Chair for approval of the course.
To enroll in N404 Statistics please contact Sherri Davis at 606-672-2312