Introduction to Statistics and Experimental Design (P00262)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : PPL-P-SED

An introduction to good design and analysis of scientific studies of behaviour, the course covers issues in experimental design, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics.

Shared with UG Course U00614 Statistics & Experimental Design.

Venue:
Tues & Fri 3pm to 4pm - B9, Adam Ferguson Building
Tues & Fri 4pm to 5pm - B12, Adam Ferguson Building

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Language Sciences, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 8 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	15:00	16:00			B9, Adam Ferguson Building

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Laboratory	Tuesday	15:00	18:00	Central
Laboratory	Friday	15:00	18:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

An understanding of internal and external validity, pertinent experimental designs, data as distributions; a grasp of statistical inference, ability to employ a statistical package to run commonly used descriptive and inferential statistics, and to interpret the results.