Undergraduate Course: Statistics and Experimental Design (LASC10033)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Language Sciences |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | An introduction to good design and analysis of scientific studies of behaviour, the course covers issues in experimental design, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 15:00 - 15:50 | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 15:00 - 15:50 | | | | | Central | Laboratory | | 1-11 | | 16:10 - 17:00 | | | | | Central | Laboratory | | 1-11 | | | | | 16:10 - 17:00 |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 15:00 - 15:50, Zone: Central. Dugald Stewart Building, Rooms 3.10/3.11 |
| Additional information |
BOTH of the following classes:
Lecture Tues 15.00-15:50 rms 3.10/3.11 DSB
Lecture Fri 15.00-15.50 rms 3.10/3.11 DSB
ONE of the following classes:
Laboratory Tues 16.10-17.00 3.02 AT
Laboratory Fri 16.10-17.00 3.02 AT
Teaching Contact Time: 9 weeks out of 11 at 3 hours/week = 27 hours
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Statistics and Experimental Design | 2:00 | | |
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. |
Assessment Information
Independent project (50%)
Final examination (50%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
Teaching Contact Time: 9 weeks out of 11 at 3 hours/week = 27 hours |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ellen Bard
Tel: (0131 6)50 3951
Email: e.bard@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Stephanie Fong
Tel:
Email: S.Fong@ed.ac.uk |
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