Fall '05 Statistics and Research Methods Schedule
*readings are in Heiman text, unless otherwise specified
all SPSS manual chapters are tentative, pending arrival of the new version
Date: Topic Read Due
Tue., 8/30 Intro; ch. 1 & 2; 6-9
diagnostic pretest, part 1
9/1 Descriptive stats;
diagnostic pretest, part 2
Tue., 9/6 descriptive stats with SPSS SPSS ch. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
9/8 probability and sampling ch. 12 hw 1 - pretest
distributions
Tue., 9/13 hypothesis testing - z test ch. 13 hw. 2 - SPSS
9/15 hypothesis testing - t test ch. 14
Pearson's r
Tue., 9/20 1-way chi square p. 587-595 hw 3 - ttest
9/22 hypothesis testing SPSS SPSS ch. 11 & p. 217 hw 4 - chi sq
review
Tue., 9/27 Exam #1
9/29 2-way chi square p. 596-601
Tue., 10/4 Pepsi challenge; APA style APA manual
10/6 SPSS - analyze Pepsi SPSS ch. 8
Tue., 10/11 designing 2 sample studies ch. 15 hw 5 - Orne
10/13 independent samples t-test SPSS ch. 11 hw 6 - Pepsi
Tue., 10/18 within-subjects designs ch. 16 hw 7 - indep t
10/20 paired t-test SPSS ch. 11
Tue., 10/25 conduct experiment; APA style hw 8 - paired t
10/27 analyze experiment
review session
Tue., 11/1 Exam #2
11/3 between-subjects ANOVA ch. 17
Tue., 11/8 between ANOVA cont'd SPSS ch. 12 paper version 1
11/10 within-subjects ANOVA SPSS ch. 24 hw. 9(ANOVA)
Tue., 11/15 advanced SPSS
11/17 video for hw. #10
Tue., 11/22 factorial designs ch. 18 hw. 10 (video)
11/24 Thanksgiving
Tue., 11/29 factorial designs. SPSS ch. 13 paper version 2
12/1 factorial designs
Tue., 12/6 quasi-experimental designs ch. 20 hw 11 SPSS
12/8 quasi-experimental hw 12 - article
review