Statistcal Foundations

PSY 6600 / EDUC 6600

“Statistical Foundations” is designed to provide graduate students with a practical, applied approach to the application of fundamental behavioral and educational research design and statistical principles. Students will learn how to differentiate and appropriately select the best statistical methods for use in various research designs and analytical problems.

Note: This course was historically called “Research Design and Analysis I”

Focus

This course will mostly focus on basic statistical techniques and several forms of the ANOVA model, which can be used by themselves or serve as building blocks for more advanced techniques in other courses.

Students will also learn how to:

  1. Use the R statistical programming environment (via the R Studio IDE) to analyze data and

  2. Interpret and communicate the results of analyses (including creating reproducible research reports with R Markdown).

Syllabus

Summer 2021 - Spring 2021 - Summer 2020 - Spring 2020

Resources

  1. Explaining Psychological Statistics, 4th edition, by Barry Cohen
  2. Publication Manual of the APA: The Official Guide to APA Style, 7th edition (2020)
  3. Encyclopedia: http://www.sarahschwartzstats.com/encyclopedia_vol
  4. YouTube: Sarah Schwartz Stats LINK
  5. Ihno’s Dataset: SPSS or Excel, data dictionary
  6. Formula Sheet
  7. Look-up Tables
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