Psych. Statistics: User Notes

User Notes
Contains: Introduction, Viewing & Printing Tips, & Navigational Aids

Introduction

This site contains materials for a college level undergraduate statistics course. The approach places emphasis on practical application. Examples are shown with hand computations and with the Minitab statistical program (v13-15). There are a few MS Excel spreadsheets as well. The text used as a supplement for the course is McCall, R. B. (2001). Fundamental Statistics for Behavioral Sciences (8-th edition). NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company.

The material is divided into chapters and consists of text, tables, equations, and figures, in a hypermedia format. Minitab tutorials and some Excel spreadsheets are linked to the chapters as are homework assignments. The material is designed for use in a classroom with a presentation device. The students typically print the lectures (preferably on a color printer) in advance. To give the user a quick idea of the general appearance of equations and figures, an example of each follows.

Example Equation - showing the defining formula for a standard deviation:

Example Figure - looking at kurtosis:

Viewing & Printing Tips

This is critical. There must be a symbol font resident on your computer. Some examples of symbols used in this document follow (if you don't see them, you will need to install a symbol font). For most computers, this should not be a problem.

Alpha Beta Sum
of Mew Sigma Not
equal +&- greater than
or equal to less than
or equal to about

a b ĺ m s š ą ł Ł ť
Please change the default font of your browser to a sans serif font such as "Arial". This will match the fonts used in the equations more closely.
When printing the pages, use print preview and consider varying the percent of normal size that you print at. If you print at less than normal size, the document will likely consume less pages.
To print the site, it will be easiest to use the index. At a minimum, students should print the lectures and homework assignments for each of the chapters.

Navigational Aids

Icon	Meaning
	Table of Contents for this Site
	Index of Materials at this Site HW & Hands-On Exercises (with Answer Keys), Minitab Tutorials, Excel Spreadsheets, Graph Paper, etc.
	American Psychological Association Format Guide A writing style guide.
	Dr. Plonsky's Home Page

Alpha	Beta	Sum of	Mew	Sigma	Not equal	+&-	greater than or equal to	less than or equal to	about
a	b	ĺ	m	s	š	ą	ł	Ł	ť