UNDER CONSTRUCTION |
Instructor: | J. Cooper Cutting |
Office: | De Garmo 421 |
Phone: | 438-2999 |
e-mail: | jccutti@mail.ilstu.edu |
office hours: | MWF 11-12 & by appointment |
Where and When?
Course Description & Objective.
Logic of statistical inference: interval estimation, complex hypothesis testing, and non-parametric techniques. Applications in behavioral sciences. My goal in this course is to provide an introduction to the basic statistical methods used in the behavioral sciences. This includes some experimental design, probability theory, descriptive statistics (e.g., means, standard deviations), and inferential statistics (t-tests, correlation, regression, ANOVA). Students will also learn the basics of the statistical package SPSS.
Course Requirements.
1 final exam 30%
2 mid-semester exams 20% each
about 13 homeworks 30%
Class Policies
Your textbook's web page. |
Date | Tentative topic calendar | Readings
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Homework |
WK1 (Jan. 11, 13, 15) | Intro, graphs, descriptive statistics |
this syllabus, chpt 1 | |
WK2 (Jan. 20, 22) | Normal distributions | chpt 1 | Homework #1 |
WK3 (Jan. 25, 27, 29) | correlation & regression | chpt2 | Homework #2 |
WK4 (Feb. 1, 3, 5) | experimental design | chpt 3 | Homework #3 |
WK5 (Feb. 8, 10, 12) | probability | chpt 4 | Homework #4 |
WK6 (Feb. 17) | Mid-semester exam | Chpts 1-4 | |
WK6 cont. (Feb. 15, 21) | Inference & probability | chpt 5 | Homework #5 |
WK7 (Feb. 22, 24, 26) | inferential statistics hypothesis testing |
chpt 6 | Homework #6 |
WK8 (Mar. 1, 3, 5) | t-tests | chpt 7 | Homework #7 |
WK9 (Mar. 8, 10, 12) | Spring Break | Spring Break | |
WK10 (Mar. 15, 17, 19) | Estimation | chpt 8 | Homework #8 |
WK11 (Mar. 22, 24, 26) | Chi-squared | chpt 9 | Homework #9 |
WK12 (Mar. 29) | Mid-semester exam2 | Chpts 5-9 | |
WK12 (31, April 2) | Regression revisited | chpt 10 | |
WK13 (Apr. 5, 7, 9) | more regression | Homework #10 | |
WK14 (Apr. 12, 14, 16) | multiple regression | chpt 11 | Homework #11 |
WK15 (Apr. 19, 21, 23) | ANOVA, one-way | chpt 12 | Homework #12 |
WK16 (Apr. 26, 28, 30) | ANOVA, two-way | chpt 13 | Homework #13 |
WK17 (May 1) | Review for the Final Exam | ||
Finals Week |
FINAL EXAM
Thursday, May 6 @ 7:50 AM |