Psychology 105. Quantitative Methods
This course teaches basic statistical methods and their underlying logic. The emphasis is on understanding how statistical methods aid in decisions about data and on the practical procedures for using SPSS and other statistical packages to calculate the statistics. At the conclusion of the course, every student should be able to:
1. recognize occasions when statistical methods would be helpful
2. choose the appropriate statistical procedure
3. create a data file
4. use SPSS to calculate the statistics
5. understand the output
6. form a conclusion about the data, based on the statistical analyses