36-309/749 Experimental Design for Behavioral and Social Sciences

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Course Information

Last year's Syllabus: (pdf file)

Meeting Times: 

Lectures: 12:00-1:20 Porter Hall 100 (Tuesdays only) 
Labs: 
  [Section A]: Thursdays, 12:00-1:20, Baker 140C and F, Computer Labs
  [Section B]: Thursdays, 1:30-2:50, Baker 140F, Computer Lab
  [Section C]: Fridays, 12:00-1:20, Baker 140C and F, Computer Labs
  [Section D]: Fridays, 1:30-2:50, Baker 140F, Computer Lab
Office Hours: Howard: Tue 3:30-4:30, Wed 8:30-9:30AM, and by appointment in BH232H
              TAs: Mon 9-10 and 6-7 and Tue 1:30-2:30  in room FMSB 320
Midterm Exam: Tuesday 10/12 12:00-1:30 
No calculator, one sheet of notes (two sides) allowed. Consider putting this on your sheet: Formula sheet

Final Exam: 
36-749 grad students: Thu Dec 9 8:30-11:30 AM in PH-A18A
36-309 undergrad: Mon Dec 13 5:30-8:30 PM in DH-2210
No calculator allowed.  Bring one sheet of notes (two sides allowed).

Staff Information

Professor: Howard Seltman  
TAs: TBA 36-749 TA: TBA

2010 Lecture Notes

August 24: Intro
August 31: Statistical Principles with t-test, ANOVA examples
Sept. 7: Design Principles
Sept. 14: Regression
Sept. 21: ANCOVA
Sept. 27: 2-way ANOVA
Oct. 5: midterm review
Oct. 19: power
Oct. 26: contrasts
Nov. 2: within subjects designs
Nov. 9: categorical DVs
Nov. 16: mixed models
Nov. 30: final review

Textbook

The text book is on-line at http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~hseltman/309/Book/

An alternate textbook choice is Doing Statistics with SPSS by Kerr, Hall and Kozub (Sage Publications, 2002, ISBN 0 7619 7385 0). If you use this book, be sure to print out the Errata.

Labs

Homework: All homework is due by 3:00 PM Wednesdays to BH132L (or in class Tuesday)

Links

Some Advice
Math Review Sheet
SPSS links
Cluster Information

Exams