• Discuss projects and presentations

• Grading rubrics for projects and presentations under Course Documents on Blackboard!

• Discuss ANOVA – complete practice problems

The following assignment(s) is(are) associated with this week's lab. 

1. Statistics Assignment for 4/6 - Due anytime before 4/20/06 - turn in your printed assignment to the box located outside my office.

What have we covered this semester in research methods?

1. What is research?
2. Steps in the scientific method
3. What is a peer-reviewed journal?
4. How to do a review of literature using a variety of databases.
5. Experimental design – how to maximize internal validity (extent to which the results of the study are due to the intervention; control group, randomization, pretest, double-blind) and external validity (generalizability)
6. What is an Institutional Review Board (IRB)?  When was this concept implemented and why is it important to protect human subjects?
7. Ethics in research – examples of ethical and unethical behavior
8. How to use Excel or other WEB resources to calculate
   • Descriptive statistics
   • Frequency distributions
   • Confidence intervals
   • Hypothesis testing
   • Z-test
   • T-test
   • Regression/correlation
   • ANOVA
9. Graphing in excel – histograms and scatterplots.
10. When do you use each of these statistical tests?
11. What does statistical significance mean.

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