Postgraduate Course: Introduction to Statistics and Experimental Design (LASC11021)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| 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. |
| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- gain an understanding of internal and external validity, pertinent experimental designs, data as distributions
- grasp statistical inference, ability to employ a statistical package to run commonly used descriptive and inferential statistics
- interpret results
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Reading List
Coolican, Hugh (2004). Research methods and statistics in psychology (4th edition) London, Hodder & Stoughton.
Field, A. (2013). Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS (and sex, drugs, and rock n roll). London: Sage.
Field, A., & Hole, G.J. (2003) How to design and report experiments. London: Sage.
Greene, J. and D'Oliveira, M. (2006). Learning to use statistical tests in psychology: a student's guide.
Lane D. M. (1993-2007). Hyperstat. http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/ |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Attend all lectures as scheduled |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ellen Bard
Tel: (0131 6)50 3951
Email: e.bard@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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