This course is designed to introduce you to graduate-level behavioral research with a focus on data analysis. We will examine the core concepts in inferential statistics, as well as issues of replication and reproducibility. The course also provides a survey of methods that serves as a foundation for other quantitative courses, both within and outside the department.
Prerequisites: This course assumes that students have taken a previous undergraduate-level research methods course (e.g. PSYC 2100WQ) and have a strong understanding of descriptive statistics, t-tests, and correlations. If you are concerned about your readiness for the course you may want to discuss how to approach the course with Professor Stevenson or your advisor.
Problem sets require using your choice of R or SPSS. R is available here (or Rstudio). SPSS is available here (or AnyWare).Topic | Assignments | |
08.30 09.01 | Course Intro Exploratory Data Analysis |
Problem Set 1 due 9/3 |
09.06 09.08 | Labor Day (no class) Data Visualization |
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09.13 09.15 | Validity and Reliability Experimental Design |
Problem Set 2 due 9/14 |
09.20 09.22 | Null Hypothesis Significance Testing ...and its interpretation |
Problem Set 3 due 9/24 |
09.27 09.29 | Effect size and power Simple models and simple regression |
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10.04 10.06 | One-way ANOVA Contrasts and trend analysis |
Problem Set 4 due 10/05 |
10.11 10.13 | Factorial ANOVA Factorial ANOVA con't |
Problem Set 5 due 10/15 |
10.18 10.20 | ANCOVA Multiple comparisons |
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10.25 10.27 | Repeated-measures ANOVA Repeated-measures ANOVA con't |
Problem Set 6 due 10/26 |
11.01 11.03 | Mixed effects models Intro to multi-level models |
Problem Set 7 due 11/05 |
11.08 11.10 | Outliers and other tricky things Intro to GLMs |
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11.15 11.17 | Intro to nonparametric tests Intro to bootstrapping |
Problem Set 8 due 11/16 |
11.22 11.24 | Fall Break (no class) Fall Break (no class) |
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11.29 12.01 | Intro to Bayesian methods Intro to Factor Analysis |
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12.06 12.08 | Project Presentations Project Presentations |
Project Reports due 12/17 |