NOTE: I will be on sabbatical during Winter-Spring next year, 2016, so I will not be teaching P317-318 next year. However, I will resume teaching it in 2017 and I would like to invite people to apply to be undergraduate TAs for that year. Here is the story on being an undergraduate TA.
I usually accept no more than four people as undergraduate TAs (this year was an exception).
If you will be here for both Winter and Spring quarters of 2017, and you are interested in being an undergraduate TA for this class, please come by and see me. Feel free to call or email me to set up an appointment.
Important things to know are these.
· Class times and the class structure will be the same in 2017 as it is this year.
· Skills for being an undergraduate TA include both understanding the class materials and being able to explain them to others.
· Undergraduate TAs are expected to attend all class lectures, hold their own section, hold 3 hours a week of office hours, grade their section's homework, and help grade exams.
· Although it's a lot of work, being an undergraduate TA has a number of advantages: you learn the materials much better, you develop skill as an instructor, you develop a nice relationship with your fellow TA's and you get a letter of recommendation from me which is useful for your future (plus, at the end of the year, I take everyone out for a celebratory TA dinner).
· Class credit (I believe Psych 497) is available for being an undergraduate TA.
· Please talk to any of the current TAs to get the best sense of what the job is like.
· Please download FHW assignment from this Excel workbook.
Probable Schedule: What follows is likely what will be covered throughout this quarter:
· Week of March 30 (Exam 1): Chapter 10
· Weeks of April 6 and April 13 (Exam 2): Chapter 11
· Weeks of April 20 and April 27 (Exam 3): Chapter 12
· Weeks of May 4 and May 11 (Exam 4): Chapters 13 and 14
· Weeks of May 18 and May 25 (Exam 5): Chapters 14 and 15
· Week of June 1 (Final Exam): Chapter 16. (NOTE: the Final Exam will cover Chapters 10-16)
· P318.C15.1.PlannedComparisons
· P318.C15.2.PlannedComparisons
· Chapters 15 and 16
· Pearson r confidence intervals
· P318.C14.1.Correlation.Basic
· Please download HW5 assignment from this Excel workbook. Please note that there are two worksheets: one corresponding to Chapter-14 problems and the other corresponding to Chapter-15 problems
· NOTE the following changes in HW5: Eliminate Problems 2e, 15, 16, and 20. They will become part of the Final HW.
· Chapters 14 and 15
· Chapter 14
· Please download HW4 assignment from this Excel workbook. Please note that there are two worksheets: one corresponding to Chapter 13 problems and the other corresponding to Chapter 14 problems.
· Chapter 14
· Prior to going through Chapter 14, I'll spend some time going over the Chapter-13 Excel worksheets (see below). So make sure you've downloaded them, and please spend some time looking them over and trying to figure them out.
· Chapter 13
When showing your work it is not sufficient to write the Excel formula on the exam. This is because you can potentially calculate certain values using Excel without demonstrating the knowledge of how they were calculated.
Instead you should show work on exams by writing out the formulas as they were described in class and in the textbook in addition to any algebraic steps. Excel should only be used for calculations.
In other words, we want you to use Excel to make your lives easier, not as a substitute for knowing what you’re doing.
Please download the following Excel workbooks that are relevant to Chapter 12. NOTE: As of 4/29/15, P318.C12.1.Two-Way.ANOVA has been updated.
· Chapter 13
· Please download HW3 assignment from this Excel worksheet. UPDATE: for Problem 1, assume that n (per cell) = 16.
· Chapter 12
· NOTE: During the lecture of 4/29/15, I will be covering some material that is not covered in the text, but will still be potentially covered on Exam 3.
· Chapter 12
· Chapter 12
· Please download HW2 assignment from this Excel worksheet.
· Chapter 11
· Chapter 11
· P318.C11.2.ANOVA.H0True.False
Practice Exams
· Hour Exam 1 will be given during class time on Wednesday, 4/8/15, and exams will be given every two weeks thereafter through 6/3/15. To practice for exams, you can download previous exams from from 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
· Note that the folder of exams for a given year contains the exams themselves (as Word documents) plus one "Exam Answers" Excel workbook. Please note: in the "Exam Answers" workbook, the answers to the individual exams are individual worksheets within the workbook that can be accessed by clicking the tabs at the bottom left.
· Please note also that different exams may have covered different materials in different years. It is up to you to figure out which material on any given practice exam is relevant to the exams this year.
· Chapter 11
· Please download HW1 assignment from this Excel worksheet.
· Chapter 10
· Chapter 10
· Please download Final HW assignment from this Excel worksheet.
· Chapters 9, 10
· Please download HW5 assignment from this revised Excel worksheet. Note that mostly the problems are from the text but, as specified on the worksheet, there are changes to some of the problems.
· Note that there is a new feature to this HW assignment. Problems indicated in red will be optional. That is, answers to them will be provided in the answer sheet, but they will not be graded.
· Chapters 8, 9
· Chapters 8, 9
· Chapter 7
· Please download HW4 assignment from this Excel worksheet. Note that mostly the problems are from the text but, as specified on the worksheet, there are changes to some of the problems.
· Dale won't be holding office hours on Feb 4.
· Dale's sections will be held on Tuesdays at 4:30 PM: in Guthrie 211 today, Feb 3, in Guthrie 057 on February 10 and in Guthrie 211 on February 17.
· Chapter 6
· Chapter 5
· Here's an excellent article providing a statistical analysis of why Pete Carroll made the right call for the last play of the Super Bowl -- but Bill Belichick did not.
· My son, who's a student at Western, showed me this site that he uses for studying in all his classes. It seemed pretty helpful, but I noticed that it's underused in this class. You might want to look into it.
· Please download HW3 assignment from this Excel worksheet. Note that mostly the problems are from the text but, as specified on the worksheet, there are changes to some of the problems.
· UPDATE: for Chapter 3, problem 5, you need do only Chapter 2, problems 4, 6, 7, and 9.
· Chapter 4
· Chapter 3, pp. 105-end of chapter
· Appendix C
· Chapter 3
· Please download HW2 assignment from this Excel worksheet. Note that mostly the problems are from the text but, as specified on the worksheet, there are changes to some of the problems.
· Some time ago, I began to write an update to the text that you are using. I haven't gotten very far, but I did write versions of Chapters 1 and 2. They overlap quite a bit both with lecture and with the text that you're using. But they do have some new information and it may be worth your while to read them.
· You can download Chapter 1 here and Chapter 2 here.
· If you detect any errors (which is quite likely) or in general if you have any comments, I'd be very pleased if you emailed them to me. Thanks.
· Chapter 2
Should you like to see what happens during the entire 317-318 course, you can access last year's web site here. Note that most of the links will not work, but you can still get an overview of what the course is like.
I'd like you to be circumspect in emailing questions to me. If you have a question that needs an urgent answer, then phone me, stop by, or email me. However, if the question can be answered by a TA, then please direct it to your TA or any TA. If the question can wait, ask someone during office hours, or raise the question in section or in class. Thanks.
This class will be highly Excel-based in that HW assignments, HW answer sheets, and Exam answer sheets will all be posted in the form of Excel workbooks. It is very, very strongly to your advantage to become proficient in Excel. Knowing Excel will allow you, for example, to do your HW assignments faster by at least a factor of 3. It is possible to do well in the course without learning Excel, but it will be considerably more difficult than if you do learn Excel.
· Class syllabus: Please read carefully before coming to the first class lecture.
· Handout packet: I will constantly be referring to these handouts in lectures.
· Textbook errata sheet: Be sure to go through the text and actually implement the errata or you will be confused down the road.
· Please download HW1 assignment from this Excel worksheet. Note that mostly the problems are from the text but, as specified on the worksheet, there are changes to some of the problems.
· Note that HW1 is designed to cover only material that I will have covered in class through the lecture on Wednesday, 1/7/15. Because I will not know exactly what this material will be until class ends on Wednesday, there may be some adjustments to the assignment, which I will post very soon after class on Wednesday.
· This adjustment process will be true of all HW assignments. In general, I try to err on the side of initially assigning more rather than fewer problem on a given HW assignment. This means that any Wednesday after-class adjustments usually entail dropping problems. Dropped problems on any given HW assignment will show up as problems on the subsequent HW assignment.
· As indicated on the syllabus, the first exam will be given during class time on Wednesday, 1/14/15, and exams will be given every two weeks thereafter through 3/11/15. To practice for exams, you can download previous exams from from 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
· Note that the folder of exams for a given year contains the exams themselves (as Word documents) plus one "Exam Answers" Excel workbook. Please note: in the "Exam Answers" workbook, the answers to the individual exams are individual worksheets within the workbook that can be accessed by clicking the tabs at the bottom left.
· Please note also that different exams may have covered different materials in different years. It is up to you to figure out which material on any given practice exam is relevant to the exams this year.
· Chapter 1, pp. 39-end of chapter; Chapter 2 through p. 69
· Introduction, Chapter 1
· Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1