Course Details

PSYC 206 - Data Analysis in Psychology

In this course students are introduced to the analysis of data obtained from simple research designs. Basic concepts to be discussed include hypothesis testing, displaying data, characteristics of normal distribution, and power and probability. Elementary statistics to be covered include: measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, the t-test, chi-square analysis, Pearson product moment correlation, point-biserial correlation and one-way analysis of variance. Students will be required to complete weekly problem sets.