Statistics for EMCL students

Preliminary program

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Updated on October 16. Sorry, it was my mistake, I did not follow my own schedule. (Having Chapter 8 after Chapter 7 makes actually more sense than the original schedule.)

 

NB: M&M refer to Moore, McCabe and Craig: Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (any edition, preferably sixth edition, 2009).

Week 3:
Wednesday, September 17: descriptive statistics (center, dispersion, distribution, normal distribution, data collection).
Reading: M&M, chapters 1 and 3.
Thursday, September 18: data collection, MS Word and Excel.
Assignments.
Birth year histogram.
Slides of John Nerbonne.
Handout (much longer than what I distributed during the practicum... I hope it proves useful).
Some hints to use Word to create diagrams.
General remarks concerning your solutions of the assignment.

Week 4:
Wednesday, September 24: inference (confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, standard error).
Reading: M&M, chapters 5.2 and 6.
Slides (revised).
Slides of John Nerbonne.
Thursday, September 25: paper-and-pencil exercises.
Assignments.
Solutions of the assignment.

Week 5:
Wednesday, October 1: consultations.
Thursday, October 2: familiarity with SPSS.
Assignments.
Solutions of the assignment.

Week 6:
Wednesday, October 8: t-tests.
Reading: M&M, chapters 7.1-2.
Slides.
Slides of John Nerbonne.
Thursday, October 9: self practice.

Week 7:
Wednesday, October 15: Proportions. (NB: exact time and date of the lecture to be confirmed.)
New: The lecture will be held on Thursday, October 16, 11.00-13.00, in room 13.12.0120 (on the corridor of the computer labs).
Reading: M&M, chapter 8.
Slides.
Slides of John Nerbonne.
Thursday, October 16: One-sided t-tests.
Assignments.
Solutions of the assignment.

October 22, 23: autumn break.
Please note that after the break both the lecture and the practicum will be held in a different room.

Week 8:
Wednesday, October 29: Relations, Chi^2
Reading: M&M, chapters 2 and 9.1.
Slides.
Slides of John Nerbonne.
Thursday, October 30: Two-sided t-tests and matched-pairs.
Assignments.

Week 9:
Wednesday, November 5: Analysis of Variance.
Reading: M&M, chapter 12.
Slides.
Slides of John Nerbonne.
Thursday, November 6: Chi^2, proportions.
Assignments.

Week 10:
Wednesday, November 12: Non-parametric alternatives. Test choice. Review.
Reading: M&M, chapter 15 (on CD; maybe chapter 14 in older editions). Link.
Slides.
Slides of John Nerbonne. And additional slides by John Nerbonne. Even more additional slides by John Nerbonne.
Thursday, November 13: ANOVA and Wilcoxon W.
Assignments.

Exam: NEW information:
Thursday, November 27, at 11.00-13.00, de Leeuwzaal in the Academy Building.

Consultation on Wednesday, November 19 (week 11), usual place.

Some Questions & Answers.

Material for the final test

A sample of the final test (longer, though)


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