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Topic

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SPSS Lesson
(in Green and Salkind book)
Assignments
are due the following session unless otherwise noted

Threaded Discussions
in BB
Week 1
January 16
Basic Definitions
Scales of Measurement
Statistical Notation
 Chapter 1 Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Introduction
Icebreaker
 
Week 2
January 23

Frequency Distributions,
Graphic Representations
Percentiles & Percentile Ranks

 Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Lesson 15A
Lesson 16A

Frequency
Introduction due

Frequenices
Week 3
January 30		 Measures of Central Tendency Chapter 4 Lesson 20
Central Tendency
 Frequency due
 

Week 4
February 6

 Measures of Variability
The Normal Distribution Biased/unbiased Estimators 		Chapter 5
Chapter 6

Lesson 20

Variability
Central Tendency due

 

Week 5
February 13

Measures of Association
Correlation

Chapter 7
Chapter 17

Lesson 30

Association
Variability due

 

Week 6
February 20

Intro to Simple Linear Regression

 Chapter 8 Lesson 32

Regression
Association due

 

Week 7
February 27

MIDTERM EXAM

    

Regression due

  

Week 8
March 5
Inferential Statistics
Probability
Statistical Inference
Chapter 9
Chapter 10

Probability
Sampling

Week 9
March 12

Interval Estimation
Central Limit Theorem

 Chapter 12
Chapter 10

Lesson 20

Interval Estimation
Probability due		 Confidence Interval
Week 10
March 19		 Spring Break        
Week 11
March 26		 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 12
April 2

Test of difference between sample means

Independent Means t-test

 Chapter 14

Lesson 23

 Hypothesis Tesing due
Independent Means t - test 		Independent Means t-test
Week 13
April 9
 Dependent Means t-test Chapter 15

Lesson 22

 Dependent Means t - test
Independent Means t - test due 		Dependent Means t-test

Week 14
April 16

Chi Square

Chapter 18

Lesson 39
Lesson 40

 Chi-square
Dependent Means t - test due

Chi-square

Week 15
April 23

One Factor Analysis of Variance

 Chapter 16

Lesson 24

 Anova
Chi-square due		 Anova

Week 16
April 30

FINAL EXAM

     Anova due  

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