Course Objectives:
The course is intended to prepare students for upper level work in which statistical techniques are used (e.g. advanced
statistics courses, individual research, work as a research assistant, senior thesis work.) A second objective is to give
students the background to read and critically evaluate scientific and popular literatures that use statistical techniques.
A final objective is to help students develop their analytic and critical thinking abilities.
These objectives will be accomplished during the 3 weekly lectures and an additional lab section each week. The
labs will function primarily as a time for doing computer work (doing statistical analyses using SPSS). In addition,
we will focus some on problem-solving and discussion (e.g., discussing practice problem sets, homework
assignments, and exams; and going into greater depth about material presented in the lectures or texts.)
