Class in support of the Lecture "Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences" (Michaelmas 2004)
Bettina Braun
Time: Wednesday, 10-11
Location: Common Room, Centre for Linguistics and Philology
Please send exercises by email to bettina[dot]braun[at]phon.ox.ac.uk on the day indicated on the assignment. Please hand in a word-, pdf-, or ps-document containing the solutions and the spss-datafiles used to create them. Please make sure the files contain your initials and the week the exercise was given and send it as an attachment.
To download the spss-datasets, move your mouse-pointer to the link, press the right mouse-button and select "Save Link Target as ...".
If you encouter problems with any of the formats, please let me know!
Class Outline and Material
- Week 1 (ppt-slides):
- Basic descriptive statistics
- Distribution types
- z-scores
- Familiarisation with the SPSS package (dataset1, dataset2, dataset3)
- Basic graphs
- Assignment (Word Document)
- Week 2: no class!!
- Week 3 (ppt-slides):
- Sampling distributions
- Confidence intervals
- Dependent and independent variables
- Type I and Type II error
- Assignment (dataset,Word Document, a solution),
- Week 4 (ppt-slides):
- z-statistic vs. t-statistic
- between-subjects vs. within-subjects design
- t-test (independent vs. paired)
- Online tutorial: independent and paired t test (from University of New England)
- Assignment (dataset rt_paired.sav, rt_cond_c_d, Word Document, a solution)
- Week 5 (ppt-slides):
- A note on p-values
- Goodness-of-fit (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test)
- Speaker normalisation
- Data aggregation
- Non-parametric tests
- Practicals
- Assignmnet (dataset f0values.sav, polite.sav, Word Document, a solution)
- Week 6 (ppt-slides):
- Chi-Square test
- Introduction to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
- One-factor between-subjects design
- Factorial design
- Assignmnet (dataset for factorial design, Word Document, a solution)
- Week 7 (ppt-slides):
- Correlation
- ANOVA
- Within-subjects design
- Mixed design
- Data (one-way within-subjects design, two-way within-subjects design)
- Assignment (Word Document)
- Week 8 (taught by Dr Greg Kochanski)
- Simple and multiple regression