Abnormal Psychology

Text Box: BADM/POLS/PSY/SOC 309A Statistics
Three credit hours
Fall Semester, 2007 at Houghton College
Paul Young, Department of Psychology
Class meets 10-10:50 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Office: Academic Building B - 324 Phone: 567-9308
On Campus extension: 3080 e-mail: paul.young@houghton.edu

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Text Box: Set 1. Epistemology, terminology, and scales of measurement.
Set 2. Symbols and conventions.
Set 3. Frequency distributions, percentiles, and percentile ranks.
Set 4. Averages or measures of central tendency and measures of variability..
Set 5. Z-scores and the standard normal distribution
Set 6. Probability
Set 7. Probability, sampling theory, and the distribution of sample means
Set 8. Hypothesis testing: The science of uncertainty rears its ugly head.
Set 8a. The binomial distribution
Set 9. Student's t distribution
Set 10. Two ts for two: Independent samples and related samples
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Set 12. Estimation statistics
Set 13. One way to do Analysis of Variance: The one-way ANOVA
Set 13a. Multiple comparisons
Set 14. More ways to do Analysis of Variance: Repeated measures, two factors
Set 15a. Correlation and regression
Set 15b. Correlation
Set 15c. Multiple regression
Set 16. Frequency inferences: Chi-squared and more
Set 17.
Set 18.
Computer Usage: Excel and SPSS
1. Guide sheet to activating Excel and downloading SPSS.
2. Using Pivot Tables for Frequency Distributions
3. Drawing column charts with Excel.

4. Setting spacing between columns in Excel charts.
5. Z-scores in Excel and SPSS
6. Pearson correlation in Excel and SPSS
7. Spearman correlation in SPSS
12. The normal deviate test in Excel: Z-test for samples
Links to Statistics Sites

Several statistical databases maintained by federal government agencies are available on this site.
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Last updated 26 August, 2006
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