STATISTICAL METHODS IN EDUCATION

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The course is designed to equip doctoral students with the essential statistical concepts for developing statistical designs in their own research. In addition to the fundamental principles of descriptive and inferential statistics, students will learn to use computers to compute data and to interpret computer -generated results produced by statistical software (SPSS). Course topics include measurements of central tendency, variability, relative position, and correlation; sampling and probability distributions; tests of significance; t-tests; analysis of variance; chi- square tests; and regression analysis. Analysis of data with SPSS is emphasized.