Inferential Statistics

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EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 506
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

Texts: Howell, D.C. (2002). Statistical methods for psychology (5th. ed.), Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury. OR

Glass, G.V and Hopkins, K.D. (1995) Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology. (3rd ed.) Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
(Optional) Cronk, Brian C.. (2004) How to Use SPSS. Glendale, CA. Pyrczak Publishing.

This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics. The course will focus on statistics as they are applied by researchers in many disciplines. Prerequisite for this course EPSY 402 or equivalent, we will be using simple algebra to develop statistical concepts.

Goals for the course:

To enable EACH student to:

1. Compute, understand and interpret basic descriptive and inferential statistics.

2. Understand statistical logic and the assumptions underlying procedures

3. Read, understand, interpret and critique published empirical research in your major field of interest.

Course is graded on:

Problem assignments which will be evaluated and returned.

Tests: You will be able to use your CALCULATOR.

Quizzes:

Midterm Examination

Final Examination

You will be introduced to Excel and the SPSS statistical program in order to execute a few statistical analyses.

COURSE OUTLINE--Topics and Text Chapters

Unit I -- Introduction and Descriptive Statistics

TOPIC

Introduction

Organizing Data and Graphing Results,

Percentiles, Measures of Central Tendency and Variability

The Normal Distribution, Standard Scores

Basic Concepts of Probability

Unit II -- Correlation, Regression, Probability and Inference

TOPIC

Correlation and Regression

Alternative Correlational Techniques

Categorical Data - Chi-Square

The Binomial Distribution

Sampling Distributions and Hypothesis Testing

Hypothesis Tests of Means

Unit III -- Applications of Statistical Inference

TOPIC

Power

Chi Square and Categorical Data

Simple Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

Multiple Comparisons

Factorial ANOVA

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