STATISTICAL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS SUNY-BINGHAMTON FALL 2010

Overview:
This course will cover descriptive and inferential statistics as they are applied to data from psychological research. Equal emphasis will be placed on the understanding of statistical concepts and the procedures required to compute statistics from basic formulas. The course covers graphs and tables, measures of central tendency and variability, elementary probability, hypothesis testing, t-tests, analysis of variance, correlation and linear regression, and chi-square tests.

Instructor:

Professor Morrissey OfficeRoom 210, Science IV Phone7-6317 Emailmorrisj@binghamton.edu Office HoursW 1-3

TAs:

Graduate Mario Laborda Sarah Olsen Undergraduate

Bill Buchta Alysse Schumacher Rui Shen Emily Zanat

Textbook:

Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences with Aplia Gravetter and Wallnau

Class Meetings: Grading:

Tuesday and Thursday, 2:504:15, LH14

There will be 3 exams given during the semester. The weighting of the three exams is as follows First exam: 15% of final grade Second exam: 25% of final grade Third exam: 25% of final grade The format of the exams will be 7-12 problems, 6 multiple choice, and 6 fill-ins. The rest of the grade for this class is taken from homework and an assignment in the statistical package SPSS. Each week there will be problems assigned on a website that accompanies the text known as Aplia. I will describe this site more in class. These problems collectively will comprise 25% of the semester grade. As we progress through each of the inferential statistical tests this semester, we will be showing you how to use SPSS to carry out each of these tests. You will then be given a list of problems that must be completed using this package. This assignment is also worth 10% of your final grade. Showing your work on exams: On exam questions you must show all (major) steps to the solution. If you write down an answer, but do not show any work (or very little work) for the problem, you will not receive credit for your answer even if it is correct. Your goal is to show that you understand the process, not simply that you can get the correct answer (many calculators have programs that will give you the correct answers). This policy will often work to your advantage if your answer is incorrect. If your final answer is numerically wrong due to a minor computational error, you may still receive much of the credit for the problem if your work shows that you understand the problem. Average 95-100 92-94 89-91 85-88 82-84 79-81 75-78 72-74 62-71 < 62 grade A AB+ B BC+ C CD F

Make up policy: Make up exams will be granted very rarely. If you are ill or must miss class on the day of an exam for some other (very good) reason, a

makeup exam may be scheduled (whether a reason is good enough to warrant a makeup exam will be determined by the instructor on a case-by-case basis.) Documentation of your illness or extenuating circumstances will be required in order to schedule a makeup exam. You must notify me in writing or via phone of your absence and of your intent to take the make up exam. If you do not show up at the scheduled make up time, you will forfeit that exam. The make up exam may be in a different format than the original exam. Calculator: You will need a calculator that will perform square roots (as well as the usual mathematical functions). Nothing elaborate is neededit shouldnt cost you more than $10. Two things to keep in mind: a)If you have a PDA with a calculator function, you may not use it for exams. b) Sharing a calculator during an exam will be considered cheating.

Attendance:
I encourage students to attend all class meetings, but I do not take attendance or use it in computing final grades.

COURSE SCHEDULE:
8/31, 9/2 9/7, 9/9 9/14, 9/16 9/21, 9/23 9/28, 9/30 10/5, 10/7 10/12, 10/14 10/19, 10/21 10/26, 10/28 11/2, 11/4 11/9, 11/11 11/16, 11/18 11/23 11/30, 12/2 12/7, 12/9 12/16 (2-4) Statistical Notation, Tables and Graphs Central Tendency, Variability z-Scores Probability Distribution of Sample Means; EXAM 1 Hypothesis Testing One-Sample t-Test Independent-Samples t-Test Repeated-Measures t-Test Confidence Intervals; EXAM 2 One-Factor ANOVA Two-Factor ANOVA Two-Factor ANOVA Correlation and Regression Chi-Square Tests FINAL EXAM 1, 2 3, 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16