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Date

Topic

Text

SPSS Lesson
(in Green and Salkind book)

Assignments
are due the following session unless otherwise noted

Week 1
January 12
Introduction
  Course Overview
Definitions, Scales of Measurement
Statistical Notation
Chapter 1 Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Introduction
Week 2
January 19

Frequency Distributions,
Percentile Rank,
and Percentiles

Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Lesson 15A
Lesson 16A

Frequency
Introduction due

Week 3
January 26
Measures of Central Tendency Chapter 4 Lesson 20
Central Tendency
Frequency due

Week 4
February 2

Measures of Variability
The Normal Distribution and Standard Scores
 
Chapter 5
Chapter 6

Lesson 20

Variability
Central Tendency due

Week 5
February 9

Measures of Association
Correlation

Chapter 7
Chapter 17

Lesson 30

Association
Variability due

Week 6
February 16

Intro to Simple Linear Regression

Chapter 8 Lesson 32

Regression
Association due

Week 7
February 23

MIDTERM EXAM

   

Regression due

Week 8
March 2

Inferential Statistics
P
robability
Statistical Inference
Populations
Samples
Sampling
Distribution
Chapter 9
Chapter 10

Probability

Week 9
March 9

Interval Estimation
Central Limit Theorem

Chapter 12
Chapter 10

Lesson 20

Interval Estimation
Probability due
Week 10
March 16
Hypothesis Testing
Error and Power
Test on population mean where:
 variance is known
 variance is unknown
Chapter 11
Chapter 13
Chapter 19
 

 Hypothesis Testing
Interval Estimation due

Week 11
March 23
Spring Break
    Hypothesis Tesing due

Week 12
March 30

Test of difference between sample means

Independent Means t-test

Chapter 14

Lesson 23

Independent Means t - test
 
Week 13
April 6
Dependent Means t-test Chapter 15

Lesson 22

Dependent Means t - test
Independent Means t - test due

Week 14
April 13

Chi Square
(I'm gone to AERA)

Chapter 18

Lesson 39
Lesson 40

Chi-square
Dependent Means t - test due

Week 15
April 20

One Factor Analysis of Variance

Chapter 16

Lesson 24

Anova
Chi-square due

Week 16
April 27

FINAL EXAM

   

Anova due


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