This page will be used to communicate with the class until the Discussion Groups is functioning again.

23nov05 -- These are the class notes that I would like to cover in the 10th week:
	Test Reliability and Validity
	Measurement and Testing

30nov05 -- These are the class notes that I covered in the 9th week:
	Testing Proportions
	Testing Frequencies (chi-square distribution)
	Contingency Tables/Crosstabulations
	Hypothesis Testing Overview
	Probability Distributions
	
23nov05 -- These are the class notes that I covered in the 8th week:
	Analysis of Variance (F distribution) -- we will complete this unit
	Testing Variances (F distribution)
	Where do we go from here?
	Midterm Results
	Nonparametric Tests
	
16nov05 -- Stata stuff from week 8.

16nov05 -- These are the class notes that I covered in the 7th week:
	Between vs Within Subjects Designs
	Testing Means (t distribution) -- we will complete this unit
	Effect Size
	Interval Estimation
	Analysis of Variance (F distribution)
	
09nov05 -- These are the class notes that were covered in the 6th week:
	Sampling Distributions
	Sampling Distributions Illustrated
	Chebyshev's Theorem
	Probability
	Logic of Hypothesis Testing
	Testing Means (normal distribution)
	Testing Means (t distribution)
	
02nov05 -- These are the class notes that were covered in the 5th week:
	Raw Scores, Deviation Scores & Standard Scores
	Raw Scores, Deviation Scores & Standard Scores
	Standard Scores & the Normal Distribution
	Scatterplots and Correlation
	More Correlations
	Regression
	Prediction Practice

26oct05 -- These are the class notes that were covered in the 4rd week:
	Simpson's Paradox
	By All Means
	Measures of Variability
	A Tale of Three Variances
	The Kurtosis Story
	Exploratory Data Analysis
	Football Numbers
	About Summation Signs
	Ethical Issues in Research
	
19oct05 -- Stata stuff from week 3.

19oct05 -- These are the class notes that were covered in the 3rd week:
	Research Designs and Validity
	Steps in the Research Process
	Operational Definitions
	Mediator vs Moderator
	Sampling Designs
	Frequency Distributions
	Frequency Distributions in Stata
	More on Histograms
	Distribution Shapes
	The Distribution of Percentiles
	Measures of Central Tendency

19oct05 -- The class discussion pages are now working.  Please submit all of
        your lecture or assignment questions to the discussion groups pages.

12oct05 -- Stata stuff from week 2.

6oct05 -- Here are some of the Stata commands we covered in the first class:
	use ...
	list ...
	tabulate ...
	tabulate ..., nolabel
	sumarize ...
	tabstat ..., by(...)

5oct05 -- Today in class we covered the following class notes:
	Preliminary Issues
	Measurement Scales
	STAR Test Results
	Classification of Research
	Research Validity
	Research Designs

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