Instructor: Devon Brewer

You can obtain overheads, some handouts, and other course materials for this course by following the links below.

Syllabus
 

Overheads

Purposes of statistics, introductory concepts

Research methods & design, scales of measurement

Frequency distributions

Displaying univariate data

Measures of central tendency, distribution shapes

Measures of dispersion

Normal distribution

Bivariate relationships: categorical data

Bivariate relationships: regression and correlation

Time series

Probability (parts 1 & 2)

Sampling distributions

Confidence intervals

Significance testing

Meta-analysis

Multivariate analysis
 

Homework Assignments

Homework #1

Homework #2

Homework #3

Homework #4

Homework #5

Homework #6

Homework #7

Homework #8
 

Extra Credit

Media reports

Data analysis project and paper
 

Web tools for demonstrations and data analysis

Survey Documentation and Analysis

WebStat 2.0

Mean, median, and standard deviation demonstration

Comparing interval scale distributions

Normal distribution - varying s.d.

Regression demo 1 (Regression by Eye)

Regession demo 2 (Regression Applet)

Regression demo 3 (Put Points)

Correlation demo 1 (West's version of Marden's Applet)

Correlation demo 2 (Scatter, Correlation, and Regression)

Correlation demo 3 (Correlation coefficient)

Influence of restricted range on correlation

Transformations

Relative frequency probability - dice

Relative frequency probability - coin tosses

Sampling distributions

Confidence interval for a mean

Confidence interval for a proportion
 

Last updated  12/3/00