? Credit Points : 20  ? SCQF Level : 10  ? Acronym : PPL-3-SED-LI

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

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Home subject area

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

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

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

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 9 weeks

First Class Information

Date Start End Room Area Additional Information 18/09/2007 15:00 17:00 Room B.B09, Adam Ferguson Building Central

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area Lecture Tuesday 15:00 15:50 Central Laboratory Tuesday 16:10 17:00 Central Lecture Friday 15:00 15:50 Central Laboratory Friday 16:10 17:00 Central

? Additional Class Information : Lab: either Tu or F 1610-1700

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.

Independent project (50%)
Final examination (50%)

Exam times

Diet Diet Month Paper Code Paper Name Length 1ST December 1 - 2 hour(s)

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Ms Rosemary Perks
Tel : (0131 6)50 3961
Email : v1rperks@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Ellen Gurman Bard
Tel : (0131 6)50 3951
Email : e.bard@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/