Undergraduate Course: Statistics and Experimental Design (LASC10033)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | An introduction to good design and analysis of scientific studies of behaviour, the course covers issues in experimental design, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics. Students will have extensive practice using a statistical package. |
| Course description |
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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. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 9,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
163 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment information:
Project (50%). The project will be delivered in two parts, weighted at 5% and 45% of the total course assessment.
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| Feedback |
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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 | |
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.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Teaching Contact Time:
RUNS FOR 10 WEEKS. 4 lecture hours in week 1, 2 LECTURE HOURS IN weeks 2-10, + PRACTICAL HOURS IN 9 WEEKS. = 22 + 9 = 31 HOURS |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ellen Bard
Tel: (0131 6)50 3951
Email: e.bard@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Francesca Kerr-Dineen
Tel: (0131 6)50 3961
Email: f.kerr-dineen@ed.ac.uk |
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