LSR readings can be found in the free, online textbook, Learning Statistics with R by Danielle Navarro. For those interested in taking notes, I recommend the use of the Hypothes.is app to annotate webpages. I will note that the formatting of the book online is wonky in a few places. If this bothers you, or you prefer to work offline, you can download a PDF version of the book.
| Week | Date | Topic | Readings | Quiz | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/10 | Correlation (statistical test, power) | Revelle Chapter 4 | ||
| - | 1/12 | Correlation II (correlation matrix, reliability) | |||
| - | 1/13 | Lab: Correlations | |||
| 2 | 1/17 | Univariate regression (equation, \(\hat{Y}\), \(e\)) | LSR Chapter 15 | Quiz 1 | |
| - | 1/19 | Univariate regression II (inferential tests) | |||
| - | 1/20 | Lab: Univariate regression | |||
| 3 | 1/24 | Univariate regression III (precision) | Quiz 2 | ||
| - | 1/26 | General linear model | |||
| - | 1/27 | Lab: General linear model | |||
| 4 | 1/31 | Partial correlations | Quiz 3 | ||
| - | 2/02 | Multiple regression (interpretation, model fit) | |||
| - | 2/03 | Lab: Two continuous predictors | HW 1 Due | ||
| 5 | 2/07 | MR: tolerance, model comparison | Quiz 4 | ||
| - | 2/09 | MR: Categorical predictors and one-way ANOVA | LSR Chapter 14 | ||
| - | 2/10 | Lab: Categorical predictors | |||
| 6 | 2/14 | Finish ANOVA; start assumptions | Lynam et al (2006) | Quiz 5 | |
| - | 2/16 | Assumptions and diagnostics | |||
| - | 2/17 | Lab: Diagnostics | |||
| 7 | 2/21 | Causal models | Rohrer (2018), Rohrer (2017) | Quiz 6 | |
| - | 2/23 | Interactions: Continuous x categorical (pre-recorded) | McCabe et al (2018) | ||
| - | 2/24 | Lab: Interactions | |||
| 8 | 2/27 | HW 2 Due | |||
| - | 2/28 | Interactions: Continuous predictors | LSR Chapter 16 | Quiz 7 | |
| - | 3/02 | Factorial ANOVA | |||
| - | 3/03 | Lab: ANOVA | |||
| 9 | 3/07 | Factorial ANOVA | McClelland & Judd (1993) | Quiz 8 | |
| - | 3/09 | Power and 3-way Interactions | |||
| - | 3/10 | Lab: papaja | |||
| 10 | 3/14 | Polynomials and Bootstrapping | Yarkoni & Westfall (2017) | ||
| - | 3/16 | Machine learning | Quiz 9 | ||
| - | 3/17 | Lab: Bootstrapping | HW 3 Due | ||
| Finals | 3/20 | Final Project Due |
Final: The final project is due at 9am on March 24th.
Your final grade is comprised of three components:
Quizzes are intended to assess your understanding of the theoretical principles underlying statistics. There will be a quiz every Tuesday, with the exception of the first week, when there will be no quiz, and the final week when the quiz will be on Thursday.
Quizzes may be resubmitted with corrections and receive full credit. To resubmit a quiz, write your corrections on the back of the quiz; for each question that was answered incorrectly, identify the correct answer, and explain why this is the correct answer. Only if the explanation sufficiently conveys an understanding of the theoretical principles will credit be given. There are no limits to the number of times a quiz may be resubmitted.
If you are absent the day of a quiz, you can take a make-up quiz after the next lecture you attend.
Homework assignments are intended to gauge your ability to apply the topics covered in class to the practice of data analysis. Homework assignments are to be done using R and RMarkdown; completed assignments should be submitted through Canvas, and students must attach both the .Rmd file and the compiled HTML file.
Homework assignments are due at the time the first lab starts on the day the assignment is listed. Homework assignments may be resubmitted with corrections and receive full credit. Please note, however, that corrections can only be made to problems that were answered at initial submission. There is no limit to the number of times a homework assignment may be resubmitted.
Late assignments will receive 50% of the points earned. For example, if you correctly answer questions totalling 28 points, the assignment will receive 14 points. If you resubmit this assignment with corrected answers (a total of 30 points), the assignment will receive 15 points. Late assignments will be accepted only within 7 days of the original deadline.
You may discuss homework assignments with your classmates; however, it is important that you complete each assignment on your own and do not simply copy someone else’s code. If I believe one student has copied another’s work, both students will receive a 0 on the homework assignment and will not be allowed to resubmit the assignment for points.
The final project is due at 9am on the last day of finals week (March 24). Please note that, unlike quizzes and homeworks, there will not be an opportunity to re-attempt this assignment. Instructions for the final project can be found here.
We will be using R for all data wrangling, visualization, and analysis. You may not use another statistical program in this course. Students must have the latest version of R, which can be downloaded here. It is strongly recommended that students also download the RStudio GUI, available here. Both software programs are free.
You’ll also need to download and install some version of LaTeX. There are different software programs for different operating systems – you can find links to download them all here.
All reading assignments will be posted online.
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