Instructor: Bill
Tucker
btucker@camden.rutgers.edu
Office: 225-6545
Office: Armitage
343
Home: 354-0119
Office hours: Monday & Wednesday,
4:30-5:30
Department: 225-6520
Required Text:
Package available at the Rutgers bookstore that includes:
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.
Course Schedule
Date Class Topic Text Pages
Jan 21 Introduction to the course
Jan 26 Frequency Distributions and
Graphs
18-29
Measures of Central
Tendency
37-52
Jan 28 Measures of Variation 56-70
Feb 2 Z scores 76-83
Feb 4 Z scores and the Normal Curve 30-33, 83-87
Feb 9
Review
Feb 11 First Quiz
Feb 16 Sampling Distribution of the Mean 88-95
Feb 18 The Concept of Hypothesis
Testing
98-114
Feb 23 Testing a Hypothesis about a Single Mean 117-137
Feb 25 The t Distribution 138-147
Mar 1 Testing a Hypothesis about the Difference between Means 154-163
Mar 3 Confidence Intervals 147-150
Mar 8 Review
Mar 10 Second Quiz
Mar 13-21 Spring Break
Mar 22 The Pearson Correlation Coefficient 178-189
Mar 24 Testing and Interpreting a Correlation Coefficient 190-195
Mar 29 The Spearman Rank Order Correlation 12-13
Mar 31 Regression 195-196
Apr 5 The Difference between Correlated Means 164-170
Apr 7 Review
Apr 12 Third Quiz
Apr 14 One-way Analysis of Variance 201-213
Apr 19 Post hoc tests in One-way ANOVA 214-216
Apr 21 Two-way Analysis of Variance 223-227
Apr 26 Interpreting Interactions 227-232
Apr 28 Chi Square 240-249
May 3 Review
Fourth Quiz
Given during time scheduled for Final Exam:
Wednesday, May 12, 9:00
AM