This course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of statistical methods for graduate students required to i) quantify relations and dependencies between variables and ii) conduct statistical tests in a variety of applications related to the Canadian urban system. The topics of the course include probability distributions, statistical testing and inference, as well as linear and some non-linear, simple and multiple regression and correlation techniques. The application of these methods through the use of statistical software (primarily SPSS) — both menu- and code-based — will also be part of the course. Students are required to have some background knowledge of research design, basic descriptive statistics, testing and regression analysis at the undergraduate level.