PSYC 640: Intro to Grad Stats
Department of Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology
Overview
This course is the introduction to statistics for graduate students. The goal of the course is to provide a grounding in statistical concepts, methods and application to research. I aim to increase student’s confidence in using these techniques and introducing them to R. Topics will range from including mathematical conceptualizations to practical application with various techniques ranging from descriptive statistics to ending with regression.
Meeting time and location
Lecture: Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00 - 3:15pm, Liberal Arts 3233
Instructor
Dustin Haraden – dxhgsh@rit.edu
Office: EAS 3378
Office Hours: 12:30 - 2:00pm
Materials
Textbook
We will primarily be referring to chapters in Learning Statistics with R by Danielle Navarro. This textbook is available for free online. You may choose to purchase a paper copy if you wish, but it is not required.
R and RStudio
Students must have the latest version of R as well as the RStudio GUI. Both applications are free and can be found here.