Current Schedule of Events

Section 1 of the course.

Week of 8/26

Day	Activity
Mon	Introduction to the course.
Tue	Read Chapters 1 - 3. Begin describing data
Wed	More on describing data.
Fri	Still more on describing data. Pretest -- study for this if your math is rusty.

 

Week of 9/2

Day	Activity
Mon	Wrap-up graphs and tables.
Tue	Read Chapter 4. Mean
Wed	More on central tendency.
Fri	Variability.

 

Week of 9/9

Day	Activity
Mon	Still more on variability.
Tues	Review descriptive statistics.
Wed	Read Chapter 5. Normal distribution.
Fri	z scores

 

Week of 9/16

Day	Activity
Mon	Still more on z scores.
Tue	Review Chapter 5.
Wed	Review for exam.
Fri	In-class exam.

Section 2 of the Course

Week of 9/23

Day	Activity
Mon	Sampling Distribuions. Read Chapters 6 and 7
Tue	Introduction to hypothesis testing.
Wed	Errors in hypothesis testing.
Fri	power and effect size

Week of 9/30

Day	Activity
Mon	Wrap-up z test.
Tue	In-class Homework.
Wed	Compute and interpret confidence intervals.
Fri	Two-sample t test. Read Ch. 8. Emphasis on pooled variance model

Week of 10/7

Day	Activity
Mon	More on ind t test.
Tue	In-class Homework.
Wed	Compute and interpret confidence intervals for t.
Fri	Anova. Read Ch. 9

Week of 10/14

Day	Activity
Mon	Fall Break!!!!
Tue	Fall Break!!!
Wed	Anova examples. Power. Effect size.
Fri	Planned and Post Hoc comparisons. Read Chap. 10

Week of 10/21

Day	Activity
Mon	Anova write-ups. Anova on the computer.
Tue	In class homework.
Wed	Review.
Fri	Exam.

Final exam is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10