Psychology 612 - Spring 2009
Welcome to the homepage for Psychology 612. Here you will find notes posted for the course, links to additional readings, and various tidbits you might find helpful while learning the course material. Remember that if you are prompted for a password, the user is “student” and the password is the statistic that is associated with student
Syllabus
You can download the latest edition of the syllabus here
Course Synopsis
PSYC 612 is the second course in a two-semester sequence that introduces graduate students to basic social science statistics. Throughout the academic year, you will learn the fundamental building blocks for all social sciences. Those building blocks include:
- research methods
- measurement
- statistics
- ethics
Lecture Notes and Readings
Module 1: Data Reduction
Lecture 1: Introduction/PCA
- Lecture Notes
- Required Reading: Field Chapter 15 and Dunteman (the entire book)
- Optional Reading (choose one):
Lecture 2: PCA
- Lecture Notes (see previous lecture notes as well)
- Required Reading: Field Chapter 15 and Dunteman
- Optional Reading (same as previous week)
Lecture 3: PCA/EFA
- Lecture Notes. Please refer to previous lecture notes as well.
- Required Reading: Kim and Mueller (the entire book)
Lecture 4: EFA
Module 2: Hypothesis Testing
Lecture 5: Non-parametric tests
- Lecture Notes
- Required Reading: Field Chapter 13
- Optional Reading (choose one):
- TBA
- Useful additional reading:
Lecture 6: Introducing Mediation
- Lecture Notes very brief but good outline for notes
- Required Reading: Iacobucci (entire book)
- Optional Reading (choose one):
- Useful additional reading:
Lecture 7: Mediation in practice
- Lecture Notes
- Required Reading: see above
- Optional Reading: see above
- Useful links:
Lecture 8: Introducing Moderation
- Lecture Notes
- Required Reading:
- Optional Reading (choose one):
- Additional Optional Reading:
Lecture 9: Moderation in Practice
- Lecture Notes
- Required Reading: see above
- Optional Reading: see above
Lecture 10: Multiple Comparisons
- Lecture Notes
- Required Reading: Klockars and Sax
Lecture 11: Multiple Comparisons in Practice
- Lecture Notes
- Optional Reading: NONE
Module 3: Data Management
Lecture 12: Missing Data Introduction
Lecture 13: Missing Data in Practice
Lecture 14: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Lecture 15: EDA (cont.)
- Lecture Notes
- State SAT data used in class
- Optional Reading:
Lectures 16 and 17: Data Management Wrap-up
- No new lecture notes this week
- Discussion this week to review and demonstrate Data Management module material
Important note for those who requested data
Please download the data you would like to use for the third module.
Sports
- Baseball data (winning)
- College football rankings
- College football scores
- Olympic bobsled data
- US Figure Skating Association data
