PSY340: Statistics for the Social Sciences

Introductions and Review

The "In-class labs" are designed to provide you a structured summary of the material covered each class meeting (that is, the material that I anticipate will be covered, sometimes we'll go a little faster, other times a little slower).

These will not be collected nor will they be graded (but they are highly recommended).

Do in two parts:

Part I: summary of material, concepts, definitions, formulas - Leave as short answer format for them to fill out. See books "how are you doing" questions, sample "doing it by-hand" problems.

Part II: Keep a "running" example that gets used throughout. Start with a large dataset and use it to illustrate the points made each lecture. In end, the analyses will be similar to those used on the final project (not exactly the same, but similar logic). Like Part I, questions are short answer (e.g., if you wanted to test whether X and Y are related what analyses would you run? Write out the steps that you would use in SPSS).