INTERMEDIATE STATISTICS
I
STA 5106 Syllabus
Prerequisites:
STA 3111 and graduate standing
Term
Offered:
Fall
Text:
Statistical Methods for Psychology, 5th Ed., by Howell
Basic
Concepts
Important
terms: population, samples descriptive statistics, inferential statistics
Measurement
scales: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio
Describing
and Exploring Data
Measures
of Central Tendency and Variability: mean median, mode, range variance
and standard deviation.
Graphical
methods: stemplots, histograms, boxplots, scatterplots
Normal
Probability Distribution
Logic
of Hypothesis Testing
Probability,
Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem
A
brief presentation of probability including conditional probability, statistical
independence and mutually exclusive events. An introduction to sampling
distributions using discrete random variables and small sample sizes. The
properties of the sampling distributions for the sample mean and the sample
sum.
Categorical
Data Analysis
Goodness-of-fit
tests
Chi-square
tests for independence
Chi-square
tests for Homogeneity
Hypothesis
Tests and Confidence Intervals
Classical
hypothesis testing, p-values, computation of power of the test and beta
For
the mean from a single sample
For
the means from two independent samples with equal and unequal variances
For
the means for dependent or paired samples
Strength
of the association or effect size