Instructor: Bill Tucker         btucker@camden.rutgers.edu        Office: 225-6545
                     Office: Armitage 343                                                                 Home: 354-0119
                  Office hours: Tuesday & Thursday 5:00-6:00                              Department: 225-6520
 

Required Text:
 
Package available at the Rutgers bookstore that includes:

Caldwell, Statistics Unplugged (2nd edition)
SPSS Student Version 13.0
Kirkpatrick & Feeney, A Simple Guide to SPSS for Windows

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 5       Introduction to the course

Sep 7       Frequency Distributions and Graphs                                         4-7, 49-57      
                Measures of Central Tendency                                                    18-26

Sep 12     Measures of Variation                                                              26-46, 9-15   

Sep 14      Z scores                                                                                        
                                                                                             }                57-65, 68-87
Sep 19      Z scores and the Normal Curve                                                

Sep 21      Review
 
 

Sep 26                                              First  Quiz

Sep 28      Sampling Distribution of the Mean                                              89-101                         

Oct 3       The Concept of Hypothesis Testing                                            143-163    

Oct 5       Testing a Hypothesis about a Single Mean                                  197-206   

Oct 10     The t Distribution                                                                  121-125, 163-168      

Oct 12     Testing a Hypothesis about the Difference between Means          182-191   

Oct 17     Confidence Intervals                                                             103-121, 127-131         

Oct 19     Review

Oct 24                                            Second Quiz

Oct 26      The Pearson Correlation Coefficient                      
                                                                                             }                   266-285  
Oct 31      Testing and Interpreting a Correlation Coefficient                            

Nov 2       The Spearman Rank Order Correlation                                          7-9*            

Nov 7       Regression                                                                                 285-295  

Nov 9       The Difference between Correlated Means                                 172-180    

Nov 14     Review

Nov 16                                            Third Quiz

Nov 21     One-way Analysis of Variance                                                   214-237        

Nov 28     Post hoc tests in One-way ANOVA                                          237-242

Nov 30     Two-way Analysis of Variance                                                        *

Dec 5       Interpreting Interactions                                                                    *

Dec 7       Chi Square                                                                                 247-263  

Dec 12      Review

                                                      Fourth Quiz
                                Given during time scheduled for Final Exam:
                                      Tuesday, Dec 19, 6:00 PM