ADVANCED UNDERGRADUATE STATISTICS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

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Traditional undergraduate statistics courses cover a range of inferential approaches allowing students to begin engaging in social science research. Nevertheless, those pursuing a senior thesis, participating in a research lab and/or considering going to graduate school would benefit from additional statistical training. This course aims to expand on the material covered in traditional behavioral statistics classes and offers students the opportunity to develop expertise in additional approaches usually reserved for graduate students. Combining examples from developmental psychology, cross-cultural comparisons, adolescent peer relations and psycho-physiology, we will cover advanced statistical approaches with the goal of tackling questions that apply in the real world. This course focuses on learning both the mechanics of correlation and regression as well as an understanding of the statistical concepts underlying correlations and regression, the use of these statistics and interpretation of the results.