PSYC3070: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

…this Wednesday and Thursday.

I have a feeling there will be a great deal of separation between those that have been attending class and working toward understanding and those that have not this go around. Hope to see everyone today and tomorrow. I want everyone to do well!

This week we’ll cover the factorial chapter and take our third exam during the lab period.

The week of  the 9th – 13th we’ll cover regression, but we won’t have labs as I have a presentation on Thursday afternoon.

The week of the 16th – 20th we’ll finish regression and take part 1 of test #4 over the regression material. Then on the 23 and 24th we’ll cover chi square. We’ll follow that up with test $4, part 2 over chi square on the 30th and first during our last class periods.

Lab this week will focus on using spss to calculate oneway independent and repeated measures ANOVA. We will also be focusing on post-hoc tests and interpretation. The lab directions, as always, can be found on the content page.

Share your conclusions here as comments. (Then start reading chapter 12).

I would like for everyone to pick one conclusion they feel confident about and one conclusion they do not feel confident about from our HW assignments this week and share them here so that we can all learn and grow together. If you like you my wait until after you exam them in SPSS and work from the output.

Be sure that you label what problem you are working from so that we know what you are talking about

On Monday and Tuesday I’d like for you to make sure that you complete your HW assignments

• ANOVA one-way
• ANOVA one-way post hoc questions
• ANOVA repeated measures one-way

and suggested HW problems

• chapter11: 1,2,3,5,6,7 (only do LSD test by hand as needed for the independent problems)

for chapter 11 (It’s all on the content page). On Wednesday and Thursday, we’ll go over these problems and talk about conclusion statements. In lab on Tr and Fr we will  solve these problems using SPSS and begin talking about Factorial ANOVAs (chapter 12).

I need to go to a meeting on Undergraduate Research tomorrow afternoon. As a result I am having you guys complete these assignments and giving you class time to do that so that we can move ahead more rapidly on Wednesday and Thursday. I hope that you use this time wisely. You are more than welcome to use our classroom space and work together on Monday and Tuesday if you like.

Here are our descriptives for test #2, t-tests and hypothesis testing. I exported the SPSS output as a pdf file and am sharing it here:

• http://statistics.edublogs.org/files/2009/10/QM2.pdf

The test format will be very similar to our first exam. There will be a closed book section of multiple choice and short answer questions that will require you to reflect on what we’ve covered. After you turn that in we’ll have an open book, open note set of problems to solve. You should also be prepared to answer questions by reading and interpreting SPSS output. You will have the entire 3 hours of lab if you need it. I expect many to be done after an hour or so. Remember to bring paper, pencils, your calculator, etc.

Each laptop should share a conclusion statement by commenting. Additionally, I would like for you to look at the output from each problem and notice which test is more powerful. Why?

Each laptop should share a conclusion statement by commenting. Additionally, I would like for you to look at the output from each problem and notice which test is more powerful. Why?

We’ll be starting with these problems on Monday and Tuesday. Be prepared to work and write conclusion statements.

problems may be found here