Lecture and Exam Schedule: The lecture schedule will be modified as needed during the semester. Lecture notes will be posted every Friday for the lectures for the following week. Print out lecture notes before class to help you taking notes during class. As lecture notes might change after class if further explanations are needed, check the website frequently. Readings from the text should be completed BEFORE the corresponding lecture.
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Readings for Lecture |
Lecture Slides (ppt) |
Lecture Notes (pdf) |
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Week 1 |
Introduction and Research Design Primer |
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Wed, Aug. 27 |
Probabilistic Determinism, Complex Systems |
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Fri, Aug. 29 |
Research Design in Psychology |
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Week 2 |
Descriptive Statistics |
K&M Ch. 1-3 |
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Mon, Sep 1 |
Labor Day Holiday |
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Wed, Sep 3 |
Variables, Histograms |
Ch. 1-2 |
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Fri, Sep 5 |
Sampling, Histograms, and Probability Distributions |
Ch. 3 |
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Week 3 |
Means, Variance and the Normal Distribution |
K&M Ch. 4-6 |
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Mon, Sep 8 |
Measures of central tendency, Variance, Kurtosis, etc. |
Ch. 4 |
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Wed, Sep 10 |
Variance, Kurtosis, etc and Sampling |
Ch. 5 |
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Fri, Sep 12 |
The Normal Distribution - Z-scores |
Ch. 6 |
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Week 4 |
Distribution of Means and Hypothesis Testing |
K&M Ch. 6, 11-12 |
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Mon, Sep 15 |
The Normal Distribution – Central Limit Theorem |
Ch. 6 |
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Wed, Sep. 17 |
DOM and the Standard Error of the Mean |
Ch. 11 |
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Fri, Sep. 19 |
Hypothesis Testing |
Ch. 12 |
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Week 5 |
Z-Test, Errors, Effect Size and Power |
K&M Ch. 12-13 |
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Mon, Sep 22 |
Z-Test |
Ch. 12 |
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Wed, Sep 24 |
Errors. Effect Size and Power |
Ch. 13 |
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Fri, Sep 26 |
Effect Size and Power |
Ch. 13 |
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Week 6 |
Inferential Statistics (end) and Single Factor Design |
K&M Ch13 & 17; |
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Mon, Sep 29 |
MIDTERM 1 |
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Wed, Oct 1 |
Power and Effect Size (End) |
Ch 13 |
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Fri, Oct 3 |
Confidence Intervals and Single Factor Design |
Ch17 (p295-302) |
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Week 7 |
T-Test |
K&M Ch. 14 |
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Mon Oct 6 |
Single Factor Design and the 3 types of t-test t-test for dependent means |
Ch 14 |
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Wed, Oct 8 |
One sample t-test and t-test for dependent means |
SKIP Ch. 15! |
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Fri, Oct 10 |
T-test for dependent means. Between subject design |
Ch. 14 |
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Week 8 |
T-Test (end) and ANOVA (intro) |
K&M Ch 14,19 |
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Mon, Oct 13 |
T-test for independent mean: Calculation |
Ch. 14 |
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Wed, Oct 15 |
T-test for independent means: Effect size and Power |
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Fri, Oct 17 |
One way ANOVA Introduction |
Ch. 19 |
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Week 9 |
One-way ANOVA |
K&M Ch. 19 |
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Mon, Oct 20 |
One-way ANOVA: Calculation example |
Ch. 19 |
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Wed, Oct 22 |
One-way ANOVA: Structural Model Formulation |
Ch. 19 |
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Fri, Oct 24 |
One-way ANOVA (end) – Factorial Design |
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Week 10 |
One-Way ANOVA |
K&M Ch. 19 |
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Mon, Oct 27 |
Structural Model Formulation |
Ch 19 |
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Wed, Oct. 29 |
Effect Size, Power, Modeling |
Ch 19 |
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Fri, Oct 31 |
MIDTERM II |
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Week 11 |
Two-way ANOVA |
K&M CH 20 |
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Mon, Nov 3 |
Factorial Design |
Ch. 20 |
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Wed, Nov 5 |
Two-way ANOVA: Calculation |
Ch. 20 |
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Fri, Nov 7 |
Two-way ANOVA Calculation |
Ch. 20 |
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Week 12 |
Regression and Correlation |
K&M Ch. 7,8,9,16 |
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Mon, Nov 10 |
Correlation |
Ch. 7 |
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Wed, Nov 12 |
Correlation and Hypothesis testing. Regression |
Ch 8-9 , Ch 16 |
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Fri, Nov 14 |
Regression (End) |
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Week 13 |
Chi-Square Test |
K&M Ch. 18 |
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Mon, Nov 17 |
Chi-Square Test |
Ch. 18 |
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Wed, Nov 19 |
Chi-Square Test (end) |
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Fri, Nov 21 |
Midterm Review |
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Week 14 |
Non Parametric tests and Data Transformations |
K&M Ch 21 |
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Mon, Nov.24 |
MIDTERM III |
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Wed, Nov. 26 |
Data Transformations/Rank Order tests (Intro) |
Ch. 21 |
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Fri, Nov 28 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Week 15 |
Ranks Order tests and Monte Carlo Methods |
K&M
Ch 21 |
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Mon, Dec 1 |
Rank Order tests |
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Wed, Dec 3 |
Rank Order Tests/Monte Carlo Methods |
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Fri, Dec 5 |
Monte Carlo, Multiple Linear Regression |
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Week 16 |
Introduction to Multivariate and other Advanced Statistics |
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Mon, Dec 8 |
Multiple Linear Regression. GLM |
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Wed, Dec 10 |
Final Review |
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Final Exam: Exam
Group 1: Saturday Dec 13th, 8:00-11:00 AM
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