Instructor: Bill Tucker                 btucker@camden.rutgers.edu                Office: 225-6545
Office: Armitage 343                                                                               Home: 354-0119
Office hours: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:00                                      Department: 225-6520
 

Required Text:
 

Package available at the Rutgers bookstore that includes:

Welkowitz, Ewen & Cohen, Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Harcourt Brace, 2000)
Ewen, Study Guide  to Accompany  Introductory Statistics (Harcourt Brace, 2000)
SPSS 10.0 for Students

Goals of the course:
 

To learn to speak statistics (i.e., to understand the jargon).
To learn the calculations for some standard statistical tests.
To understand and interpret the results of a statistical test.
To become familiar with the statistical software package, SPSS.
 

Evaluation:
 

Grade in the course will be based on four non-cumulative, equally weighted quizzes as scheduled below.
 
 

Date        Class Topic                                                                               Text Pages

Sep 3       Introduction to the course

Sep 8       Frequency Distributions and Graphs                                               18-31
                Measures of Central Tendency                                                       44-51

Sep 10     Measures of Variation                                                                    53-63

Sep 15     Z scores                                                                                         65-71

Sep 17     Z scores and the Normal Curve                                                     104-115

Sep 22     Review
 
 

Sep 24                                            First  Quiz

Sep 29     Sampling Distribution of the Mean                                                 118-122

Oct 1       The Concept of Hypothesis Testing                                           90-98, 122-127

Oct 6       Testing a Hypothesis about a Single Mean                                     127-129

Oct 8       The t Distribution                                                                   129-132, 139-141

Oct 13     Testing a Hypothesis about the Difference between Means             146-156

Oct 15     Confidence Intervals                                                                      133-135

Oct 20     Review

Oct 22                                            Second Quiz

Oct 27     The Pearson Correlation Coefficient                                               164-174

Oct 29     Testing and Interpreting a Correlation Coefficient                            174-178

Nov 3      The Spearman Rank Order Correlation                                          194-196

Nov 5      Regression                                                                                     178-188

Nov 10     The Difference between Correlated Means                                    157-162

Nov 12     Review

Nov 17                                            Third Quiz

Nov 19     One-way Analysis of Variance                                                      224-234

Nov 24     Post hoc tests in One-way ANOVA                                             234-239

Nov 26                                  No Class - College on Friday Schedule

Dec 1       Two-way Analysis of Variance                                                      244-250

Dec 3       Interpreting Interactions                                                                 253-255

Dec 8       Chi Square                                                                                    260-270

Dec 10     Review

Dec 17     (final exam date-at 6:00)               Last Quiz