General Course Information

Course description. Application and interpretation of basic statistics used in the behavioral sciences: descriptive statistics, simple hypothesis testing and two-variable regression.

Goals & Objectives. This is a day and age of information. The endeavor of statistics is to help interpret the mass amounts of data that we must deal with. This course is an introduction into the basics of statistical methods. The objective is that a student who finishes the course will have a basic understanding of the statistics used in the behavioral sciences. My

Evaluation (grading). Each student will be evaluated based on their performance on 3 exams, 1 cumulative final exam, homework, and quizzes. The breakdown is presented below.

final exam	150
exams	100 each (300)
11 homeworks	15 each (165)
12 on-line quizzes	10 each (120)
total	735 pts

Homework will typically be due every Tuesday at the beginning of class. If you are going to miss class that day, either have somebody turn your homework in for you, or turn it into me early. To turn it in early, please bring it to the main office (DeGarmo 435) and ask that it be placed in the instructor’s mail box. One final point about homework, it must be neat. If the homework cannot be read, then it cannot be graded, and no credit will be given. So make sure that your work is neat and legible. Quizzes are generally due Monday nights at midnight.

Additionally, students may gain an additional 30 pts of extra credit through participation as research participants. Students sign up on sheets in the basement of DeGarmo Hall. Students are expected to respect the sign-up process (that is sign up only once for a particular experiment, and once signed up, to attend and complete their appointment). For each hour of participation a student will get 6 points (so to get the maximum amount of extra credit, students must participate in 5 hours of experiments). At the experiment students will be given a ‘blue card’ that documents their participation. To get the extra credit, these blue cards must be turned into the instructor no later than May 3rd. No blue cards will be accepted during Finals week.