PSYC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Statistical Inference, Descriptive Statistics, Standard Deviation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 210
• Professor: Snjezana Huerta

Document Summary

Course objectives and organization creating an environment conducive to learning student deliverables and evaluation course schedule: describing data terminology. Format of datasets: measurement in psychology stevens" scales of measurement data transformations (& their implications) some issues and considerations. The word statistics is often used to refer to the:1. Set of procedures or rules used to summarize some characteristic or relation in a sample and 2. Resulting outcomes(the term does not refer to the data. ) There are two classes of statistics covered in this course: descriptive statistics: describe and summarize the data, inferential statistics: characteristics of the sample are used to make inferences about the population"s characteristics. Describing data: some distinctions: parametersversusstatistics variablesversusconstants dichotomousversuspolytomousvariables, discreteversuscontinuousdata quantitativeversusqualitativedata. A numerical quantity that summarizes a characteristic of the population. A numerical quantity that summarizes a characteristic of the sample. Denoted using roman letters e. g. , the mean level of some variable, x, at the.