STATISTICS for Psychology and Social Science

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course complements the Foundation Programme especially where students aiming to study Psychology or Economics or other Social Sciences have not taken Mathematicas as part of their programme. The course covers a broad range of topics from descriptive as well as inferential statistics and extends further than the S1 module of the A-level by including many topics from the S2 unit.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

Edexcel AS and A Level Modular Mathematics: Statistics 1 Keith Pledger et al and Alan Clegg, 2008
Edexcel AS and A Level Modular Mathematics: Statistics 2 Keith Pledger and and Alan Clegg, 2009

COURSE OUTLINE:

1. Organisation and Presentation of Statistical Data
2. Frequency Distributions. The Histogram
3. Quantiles, Box and Whiskers Plot
4. Measures of Central Tendency. The mean
5. Measures of Dispersion. Coefficient of Variation
6. Linear Regression
7. Correlation
8. Time Series and Forecasting
9. Probability
10. Discrete Probability Distributions
11. The Normal Distribution
12. The Binomial Probability Distribution
13. The Poisson Probability Distribution
14. Combined random variables
15. The Central Limit Theorem
16. Sampling. Derivation of Population Properties from Samples
17. Hypothesis Testing using the Normal Distribution
18. Errors in Hypothesis Testing
19. Further Hypothesis Testing Topics using the Normal Distribution
20. Interval Estimation. Confidence Intervals
21. Practical Project