Basic Statistics for Behavioral Science

Stephen R. Schmidt, Ph. D.

PSYCHOLOGY  3020
Spring 2008

Syllabus and Notes

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Week Beginning Topic
Lecture Notes
Readings
1/16 Introduction to Course
1/19 Mathematical Preliminaries
Observation and Scientific Method
Intro.pdf

Ch. 1
1/26 Measures of Central Tendency
Descriptives.pdf
Ch. 3 
2/2
Measures of Variability Variance.pdf
Ch. 4
2/9 Review
Test 1 Wed 2/11


2/16 The Z statistic
Z.pdf
Ch. 5
2/23 Probability
Sampling Distributions
Probability.pdf
SamplingDist.pdf
Ch. 6
Ch. 7
3/2 Sampling Distributions (continued)
Review
Test 2 Friday 3/6


Ch. 7
3/9 Spring Break


3/16 Hypothesis Testing Hypothesis.pdf
Ch. 8
3/23
Introduction to the t statistic
t_intro.pdf
Ch. 9
3/30 Independent Samples t
2_Sample_t.pdf
Ch. 10
4/6
Review
Test 3 Wed 4/8


4/13 Related Samples t
Paired_t.pdf
Ch. 11
4/20 Correlation &
Regression
Correlation.pdf
Regression.pdf
Ch. 15

4/27 Chi-Square
Review
ChiSquare.pdf

Ch. 16

Monday, 5/4, 10:00 AM
Final Exam
TEST_4_REVIEW_.doc






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