As social scientists, we are interested in understanding how social outcomes vary across different groups, or how such outcomes are related to other characteristics and variables of interest. To answer such questions, we often need to collect data and analyze that data in a statistical way. This course introduces fundamental techniques and methods to analyze quantitative data to draw inferences about social processes. Specifically, the course covers sampling, summary statistics and visualization, probability fundamentals, statistical inference, simple and multiple linear regression, and research design.