Instructor: Bill Tucker
btucker@camden.rutgers.edu
Office: 225-6545
Office: Armitage 343
Home: 354-0119
Office hours: Monday & Wednesday, 6:00-7:00
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
Sep 7 Introduction to the course
Sep 12 Frequency Distributions and Graphs
18-29
Measures of Central Tendency
37-52
Sep 14 Measures of Variation 56-70
Sep 19 Z scores 76-83
Sep 21 Z scores and the Normal Curve 30-33, 83-87
Sep 26
Review
Sep 28 First Quiz
Oct 3 Sampling Distribution of the Mean 88-95
Oct 5 The Concept of Hypothesis Testing
98-114
Oct 10 Testing a Hypothesis about a Single Mean 117-137
Oct 12 The t Distribution 138-147
Oct 17 Testing a Hypothesis about the Difference between Means 154-163
Oct 19 Confidence Intervals 147-150
Oct 24 Review
Oct 26 Second Quiz
Oct 31 The Pearson Correlation Coefficient 178-189
Nov 2 Testing and Interpreting a Correlation Coefficient 190-195
Nov 7 The Spearman Rank Order Correlation 12-13
Nov 9 Regression 195-196
Nov 14 The Difference between Correlated Means 164-170
Nov 16 Review
Nov 21 Third Quiz
Nov 22 One-way Analysis of Variance
201-213
NB:
This is a Tuesday
Nov 28 Post hoc tests in One-way ANOVA 214-216
Nov 30 Two-way Analysis of Variance 223-227
Dec 5 Interpreting Interactions 227-232
Dec 7 Chi Square 240-249
Dec 12 Review
Fourth Quiz
Given during time scheduled for
Final Exam:
Wednesday,
Dec 21, 6:00 PM