| Tentative Schedule | | Day | Date | Topic | Chapter Read Before Class | Homework Due Today | | MON | Aug 24 | Welcome/Syllabus; Math skills assessment; Statistics Basics | --- | --- | | WED | Aug 26 | Statistics Basics; Measurement Scales | 1, 2 | -- | | MON | Aug 31 | Frequency Distributions; Grouped Distributions | 3 | 1, 2 | | WED | Sept 2 | Percentiles & Percentile Ranks; Graphing | 4, 5 | 3 | | MON | Sept 7 | No Class-Labor Day you Commie Pinko's! | | WED | Sept 9 | Probability | 12 | 4, 5 | | MON | Sept 14 | Test 1 | --- | 12 | | WED | Sept 16 | Central Tendency;Variability | 6, 7 | --- | | MON | Sept 21 | Introduction to SPSS | --- | 6, 7 | | WED | Sept 23 | Standard (z) Scores; Normal Distribution & Probability | 8 | SPSS #1 | | MON | Sept 28 | Normal Distribution & Probability, Sampling Distributions | 8, 9 | 8 | | WED | Sept 30 | Sampling Distributions, Estimation, Confidence Intervals | 9 | --- | | MON | Oct 5 | Test 2 | --- | 9 | | WED | Oct 7 | Scatterplots; Relationships; Pearson Correlation | 10 | --- | | MON | Oct 12 | No Class-Columbus Day—Support the Empire!! | | WED | Oct 14 | Spearman Correlation; Univariate Regression | 11 | SPSS #2 | | MON | Oct 19 | Counting Rules; Binomial Expression | 13 | 10, 11 | | WED | Oct 21 | Binomial Approximation to the normal Distribution | 13 | --- | | MON | Oct 26 | Test 3 | --- | 13 | | WED | Oct 28 | Hypothesis Testing; The z-Test | 14 | --- | | MON | Nov 2 | One-Sample t-Test | 15 | 14 | | WED | Nov 4 | Bivariate Designs; Independent Samples t-Test | 16, 17 | 15 | | MON | Nov 9 | Independent Samples t-Test; Correlated Samples t-Test | 17, 18 | --- | | WED | Nov 11 | Correlated Samples t-Test | 18 | 17 | | MON | Nov 16 | Test 4 | --- | 18 | | WED | Nov 18 | Inferential Correlation | 19 | SPSS #3 | | MON | Nov 23 | Inferential Correlation; Inferential Regression | 19 | 19A | | WED | Nov 25 | No Class-Thanksgiving-Remember to save a turkey for Sarah Palin! | | MON | Nov 30 | ANOVA, Oneway ANOVA; Post Hoc Tests | 20, 21 | 19A, 19B | | WED | Dec 2 | Dead Week | Oneway ANOVA, Post Hoc Tests | 21 | 20 | | MON | Dec 7 | Chi Square | 23 | 21 | | **Final Exam** | Location: HYL 102; Date: 12/9/09; Time: 3:00 - 5:00PM | --- | 23 |
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