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Course Overview. Advanced Statistics. THE BIG PICTURE. Science is empirical. There are other ways to support claims. METHODS AND STATISTICS. Method - how you collect the data Statistics - tools for analyzing data The conclusions you can make depend on both the method and the results.

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Course Overview

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  1. Course Overview Advanced Statistics

  2. THE BIG PICTURE • Science is empirical. • There are other ways to support claims.

  3. METHODS AND STATISTICS • Method - how you collect the data • Statistics - tools for analyzing data • The conclusions you can make depend on both the method and the results.

  4. WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW STATISTICS • Conducting research • Understanding research • Clinical applications • Evaluating claims

  5. DO STATISTICS LIE? • Yes, to people who don’t know how to interpret them. • Not to people who know how to critically evaluate them. • Statistics don’t tell lies; people tell lies.

  6. What Are You Supposed to Learn? • Explain the conceptual basis of commonly used social science statistics • What is statistical significance? • What is the basic process in ANOVA?

  7. What Are You Supposed to Learn? • Select appropriate statistical techniques • Compare test scores for people randomly assigned to three groups • Compare scores before and after a treatment

  8. What Are You Supposed to Learn? • Use SPSS to analyze data • Enter data • Select appropriate procedure • Select appropriate options

  9. What Are You Supposed to Learn? • Interpret and describe the results • Know what to look for in the SPSS output • Relate the results to the original question • Use APA format

  10. Other Things I Hope You Learn • The use of statistics requires judgment and common sense. • You can do some useful things with statistics. • It’s really not so hard!

  11. Review Question! • What is the difference between a research method and a statistic?

  12. Choosing Stats • A researcher has access to a large database containing scores on a standardized memory test as well as demographic variables and decides to test whether age is correlated with memory scores.

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