Psychology 418: Introduction to Research and Statistics
Spring 2002

Class T,TH 2:00-3:30 MEZ 134
Lab W 2:00-4:00 PM BEN 222/4

Or...

Class T,TH 3:30-5:00 MEZ 202
Lab TH 12:00-2:00 BEN 222/4

Instructor info:
Dr. Bradley Love, MEZ 320, T, TH 1:00-2:00 PM

TA info:
Carey Cooper, BEN 222, T, TH 2:00-3:00 PM
Janice Ritch, PCL 5.102, Th 12:00-2:00 PM
Hunt Stilwell, BEN 222, T 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Tue Apr 30 01:56:22
exam 3
hee's the first page of exam 3:

PSY 418 - Exam 3
10 questions, total points: 76

***Show your work, put final answers in decimal form, stay calm, good luck***

Some useful facts:

For the normal distribution,

95% of observations fall within 1.96 z’s of the mean.
99% of observations fall within 2.58 z’s of the mean.


For t,

With two degrees of freedom, 95% of observation fall within 4.3 t’s of the mean.
With two degrees of freedom, 99% of observation fall within 9.9 t’s of the mean.
With four degrees of freedom, 95% of observation fall within 2.8 t’s of the mean.
With five degrees of freedom, 95% of observation fall within 2.6 t’s of the mean.
With eight degrees of freedom, 95% of observation fall within 2.3 t’s of the mean.



For F,

With two degrees of freedom between groups and six degrees within groups, 95% of observations are less than 5.14.
With six degrees of freedom between groups and two degrees within groups, 95% of observations are less than 19.33.


For Chi-Square,

With one degree of freedom, 95% percent of observations fall below 3.84.
With two degrees of freedom, 95% percent of observations fall below 5.99.
With three degrees of freedom, 95% percent of observations fall below 7.81.
With four degrees of freedom, 95% percent of observations fall below 9.49.


Some useful facts:

sp2=[(n1-1)s12 + (n2-1)s22]/(n1+n2-2)
t(n1+n2-2)=(x1 bar - x2 bar)/[sp(1/n1 + 1/n2)1/2]
b=r*(sy/sx), a=y bar-b*x bar
SSbetween=sum of all groups ni(xbari-xbar)2

Thu Apr 25 00:20:27
final stretch
Hi Everyone,

-your lab is due this tuesday.

-your paper is due before your final. please turn in your paper sooner.

-your final is:

2-3:30 class: TH, May 9, 2-5 PM, MEZ 134

3:30-5 class: SAT, May 11, 2-5 PM, MEZ 202

-no class next Th May 2nd.

-grades will be posted here by student number as soon as they are available.

good luck...

Fri Mar 29 00:41:03
exam info
The test has 12 questions.

5 have to do with methods/observation
4 are statistics problems
3 are statistical "thinking" problems that are about statisical concepts covered in the class..



the following information will be on the top of your exam:

For the normal distribution,
95% of observations fall within 1.96 z’s of the mean.
99% of observations fall within 2.58 z’s of the mean.

For t,
With two degrees of freedom, 95% of observation fall within 4.3 t’s of the mean.
With two degrees of freedom, 99% of observation fall within 9.9 t’s of the mean.
With four degrees of freedom, 95% of observation fall within 2.8 t’s of the mean.
With five degrees of freedom, 95% of observation fall within 2.6 t’s of the mean.

Thu Mar 28 23:07:10
lab
as announced in class (and probably in lab as well), your lab is due at the start of class on tuesday.

also, i am worried about people who missed class this week understanding the relationship between the one sample z test, one sample t-test, and the two sample t-test, as well as the underpinnings of hypothesis testing. if you fall in this camp, please don't be surprised if the exam doesn't work out as desired. it's probably going to take extra work to pull it together.... statistics can be hard.

Wed Mar 20 16:09:43
due dates and advice
Exam 2 is pushed back a week to the week of April 1st.

Your paper is still due next week in lab.

*** paper advice ***

It should only be as difficult as you make it for yourself. Choose your topic wisely. You are not required to have statistics in your paper (mostly because the majority of you will want to do a chi-square test which we haven't covered). You can include a calculation of s or a confidence interval if you have continuous data and you want to do this.

Also, stay up on the reading and labs or else you'll get the paper done only to have problems with Exam 2.

Sun Jan 13 17:55:17
writing help

The Undergraduate Writing Center (UWC) can help you with your writing (which
is a crucial part of this course). See http://uwc.fac.utexas.edu/ for details.

Sun Jan 13 17:54:32
important dates

These dates are all tentative. This is the week that the assignment is
due in lab. All assignments are collected in lab and all exams are
taken in lab.

Exam Dates:
Exam 1: week of Feb 11th
Exam 2: week of March 25th
Exam 3: week of April 29th
Exam 4: week day of final

Paper Due Dates:
First Paper: week of March of 25th
Second Paper: week of April 29th

Sun Jan 13 17:54:03
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