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APSY 301

• Statistics and Research Design in Education
• Section L01 Term Fall 2005
• Lecture EdC 179 Time MW 1630 (75 min)
• Lab EdC 260 Time MW TBA (60 min)
• Instructor Walter Zwirner EDT 316
• office hours by appointment
• Tel [phone] e-mail zwirner_at_ucalgary.ca
• TA tba e-mail

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Introductory definition

• Modern statistics provides a quantitative
  technology for empirical science it is a logic
  and methodology for the measurement of
  uncertainty and for an examination of the
  consequences of that uncertainty in the planning
  and interpretation of experiments and
  observations
• S.M.Stigler

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Course content

• An introduction to statistics with particular
  references to the treatment of data derived from
  educational and social sources.
• Topics to be covered
• 1. Descriptive statistics
• 2. Summation notation
• 3. Exploratory statistical techniques
• 4. Computers and statistics
• 5. Probability concepts
• 6. Binomial theorem
• 7. Normal distribution
• 8. Correlation analysis
• 9. Students' t-distribution
• 10. Estimation methods
• 11. Hypothesis testing
• 12. Simple linear regression

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Text and Grade Determination

• Recommended text
• Hinkle, D.E., Wiersma, W. Jurs, S.G. (Latest
  Edition) Applied Statistics for the
• Behavioral Sciences. Toronto Houghton Mifflin
  Company.
• Grade determination
• 1. report 1. Statistics Canada LANDRU
  discussion - Oct 7th - 10
• 2. report 2. descriptive/exploratory statistics
  Oct. 21st - 20
• 3. report 3. binomial experiment
  Nov. 9th - 20
• 4. report 4. inferential statistics
  Nov 25th - 20
• 5. In-class mid-term examination
  - Nov. 30th -10
• 6. Final examination - registrar scheduled
  -20
• In order to receive a passing grade, all tests
  have to have a passing mark.

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Additional sources

• Supplementary reading material will be made
  available through World-Wide-Web home pages.
• Additionally you can peruse statistical texts of
  a more mathematical nature in the QA Section, 3rd
  Floor, Library Block and from my homepage
• http//www.acs.ucalgary.ca/zwirner
• some class notes are in
• http//homepages.ucalgary.ca/zwirner/APSY301
• Web based text books
• http//faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/VassarStats.html
• http//www.cas.lancs.ac.uk/glossary_v1.1/presdata.
  htmldisdat
• http//davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html
• http//www.psychstat.smsu.edu/sbk00.htm
• http//www.math.uah.edu/stat/
• http//www.ds.unifi.it/VL/VL_EN/index.html