815: Quantitative Research Design & Analysis in Psychology

815: Quantitative Research Design & Analysis in Psychology

Course Outline

Rick DeShon

Fall 1999

Office: 8 Baker Hall

Phone: 3-4624

E-mail:

URL: http://www.io.psy.msu.edu/fsa/DeShon/deshon1.html

Text: Hays, W. L. (1994) Statistics. 5th Ed. Harcourt Brace.

There will be readings for each class period (please read these materials before the relevant lecture) from both the text and supplemental journal articles. In addition, a project, based on the material covered in the previous lecture, will be due at the beginning of each new class. We will review the project at the beginning of class and then cover new material week.

Projects

There will be up to 10 computer assignments that will count for 40% of the course grade. Projects and due dates will be announced in class. Each assignment will be worth 10 points if handed in on time, 5 points if handed in by the next class period, and no credit thereafter. Discussion of these projects will constitute much of the course content. The project data and descriptions will be available on my homepage. You will need to copy this data to your computer and then place it in a statistical software package. DO NOT EDIT THE ORIGINAL DATA FILES IN MY DIRECTORY!

Final Exam

The remaining 60% of the course grade will be based on a comprehensive final exam.

Class 1: Course Overview

· Data

· Experimental Design

· Graphing

· Descriptive statistics

· Computer Software Overview

Read:

· Hays Ch 2 & Ch 4

· Cook & Campbell -- Ch 1

· Miceri Paper

· Cohen, J. (1990). Things I have learned (so far). American Psychologist, 45(12), 1304-1312.

· Smith paper on Cleaning data

· Wilkinson’s paper on Statistical Methods in Psych

Project:

Class 2: Hypothesis Testing

· Normal Distribution

· Logic of Hypothesis Testing

· Sampling distributions

· Z-test

· Confidence Intervals

· Sampling Distribution program

Read:

· Hays -- Ch 5 & Ch 6

· Cohen -- Things I’ve learned so far

Project:

Class 2: Hypothesis Testing & Power

· Effect Size

Read:

· Cook & Campbell -- Ch 2

Class 4: Correlation and Simple Regression

· Correlation

· Types of Correlations

· Tests of significance (e.g., r¹0; r1¹r2)

· Assumptions of Correlation

· Simple regression

· Assumptions of Simple Regression

Read:

· Hays -- Ch 14

· Rogers and Nicewander (1988). Thirteen ways to look at the correlation coefficient. American Statistician.

· Abelson (1985). Psych Bull.

Project:

· Cherry Tree data

Class 5: Multiple Regression

· Partial Correlation

· Parameter Estimation and Interpretation

· Type I and Type III Sums of Squares

· Regression Diagnostics

· ANCOVA

Read:

· Hays -- Ch 15

· Cohen (1968). Psych Bull.

· Wampold & Freund (1987). Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Project:

· Cherry Tree data

Class 6: Multiple Regression

· Curvilinear Models

· Interaction Models

· Mediation Models

Read:

· Hays -- Ch 16

· Cohen (1978). Psych Bull.

· James and Brett (1984). Psych Bull.

Class 7: Multiple Regression

· Categorical IVs

· Effects Coding

· Dummy Coding

Class 8: Two-sample Comparisons

· Independent groups

· Heterogeneous variances

· Dependent groups

· Power

Read:

· Hays -- Ch 8

Class 9: One-Way ANOVA

· Logic of ANOVA

· Planned Comparisons/contrasts

· Post-hoc tests

· Trend Analysis

· ANCOVA

Read:

Hays -- Ch 9, Ch 10, Ch 11

Class 10: Factorial and Nested ANOVA

· Factorial ANOVA

· Nested ANOVA

· Unbalanced Designs

Read:

· Hays -- Ch 12

· Rosnow and Rosenthal (1989). Psych Bull.

· Abelson (1996). Psych Science.

· Rosnow and Rosenthal (1989). Psych Science.

Class 11: Repeated-Measures ANOVA

Read:

O’Brien & Kaiser (1985). Psych Bull.

Games (1990). Statistical Methods in Longitudinal Research

Class 12: Categorical Data Analysis

· Measures of Effect Size and Asociation

· Goodness of Fit

· Tests of independence

· Log-Linear Models

Read:

· Hays – Ch 18

· Marascuilo & Busk (1987). Journal of Counseling Psychology.

· Elliot (1988). Psych Bull.

· Rindskopf (1995). Categorical variables in developmental research: Methods of analysis.

Class 13: Categorical Data Analysis

· Logistic Regression

· Press & Wilson (1978). Journal of the American Statistical Association.

· Gordon & Leighty (1988). Good example of logistic regression. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Class 14: Data Reduction Techniques -- Factor analysis

Class 10: Data Reduction Techniques -- Factor analysis

Read:

D&G Ch. 2 & 3

Cattell (1965). Biometrics.

McDonald and Mulaik (1979). Psych Bull.

Ford, MacCallum & Tait (1986). Personnel Psychology.