Nov 29 2007
Stats Bootcamp Online
I’m going to be reorganizing and expanding my stats for social sciences pages. The pages I have posted were written for people who needed to understand stats in journal articles, but did not give the necessary information to use stats in their own research. So I’m going to be rewriting them, with how to do tests in SPSS and Excel (I may have to put an Excel bootcamp online — most people have used it, but most are not power users). Anyway, here is the tentative list of sections:
- Intro
- Software (SPSS and Access/Excel)
- The Null Hypothesis and Research Design
- Data Types, Sampling, Bias, and Data Collection
- Raw Data, Clean Data, and Aggregated Data
- Data Distributions
- Descriptive Statistics: Central Tendency, Variance, Kurtosis, and Skewness
- Sample and Population
- Correlation
- Inferential Statistics: Comparing Means
- Inferential Statistics: Expected Values and Goodness of Fit
- Regression
- Final Issues
It’s not clear whether the section on research design should be at the beginning or the end. I’ll have to think about that.
Whattaya think? Waste of time? Good idea?
5 responses so far
5 Responses to “Stats Bootcamp Online”
Please. I have forgotten soo much.
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great idea! i could surely use a refresher.
Hot damn. I know I could benefit from an approach like this one.
I would very much appreciate it. I have forgotten so much, and there’s some stuff I probably didn’t learn well in the first place.