Introduction to Probability Theory and Statistics for Psychology
    and
Quantitative Methods for Human Sciences

Lectures

Lectures will take place in Hilary Term on Tuesdays at 11am and Wednesdays at 12pm in the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre.

Lecture Slides, Notes and Exercise Sheets


Exercise sheets for the whole term are now posted.
Some data sets discussed in the lectures or notes are posted here, just for your interest.

Complete lecture notes.
    This file will be updated every week after the lecture if there are changes, and the new chapter will be posted separately.
    Preliminary versions of slides are now posted New versions will be posted after the lecture if there are changes.

Introductory sheet

Part 2



Date
 Material
 Exercises
 Topic
Lecture 1 : 17 Jan, 2012
 Slides
 Exercises
 
chi-squared test
Lecture 2 : 18 Jan, 2012 Slides
 Exercises
 T distribution
Lecture 3 : 24 Jan, 2012 Slides
 Exercises Comparing distributions
Lecture 4 : 25 Jan, 2012 Slides
 Exercises Nonparametric tests, part 1
Lecture 5 : 31 Jan, 2012 Slides
 Exercises
 Nonparametric tests, part 2
Lecture 6 : 1 Feb, 2012 Slides
 Exercises
 ANOVA and the F test
Lecture 7 : 7 Feb, 2012
Exercises
 Regression and correlation, part 1
Lecture 8 : 8 Feb, 2012

Regression and correlation, part 2




Part 1



Date
 Material
 Exercises
 Topic
Lecture 1 : 10 Oct, 2011
 Crews data set
"Baby-boom" data set
Quebec births
Slides
 Exercises
 
Plotting and summarising data
Lecture 2 : 17 Oct, 2011 Slides (updated 17/10/11) Exercises
 Probability I
Lecture 3 : 24 Oct, 2011
 Slides (updated 26/10/11)  Exercises Probability II
Lecture 4 : 31 Oct, 2011
 Slides (updated 31/10/11) Exercises The Binomial distribution
Lecture 5 : 7 Nov, 2011
 Slides    corrected lecture notes
(important: slides corrected 20/11/11.
Table on slides 22, 23 was wrong.)
 Exercises
 The Poisson distribution
Lecture 6 : 14 Nov, 2011
 Slides (updated 17/11/11)
"The decline effect"
Research fraud
Misreporting of statistical results in psychology journals
 Exercises
 The Normal distribution
Lecture 7 : 21 Nov, 2011
 Slides
(updated 21/11/11)
 Exercises
 Confidence Intervals
Normal Approximation
Lecture 8 : 28 Nov, 2011
 Slides Exercisess Significance tests



Booklet

A formula booklet will be provided at the first lecture, summarising the major methods and formulae covered during the course.  A copy of the formula booklet will be provided at the examination and can be downloaded here.

Glossary of Statistical Terms

A booklet will be provided at the first lecture, comprising a glossary of statistical terms. It can be downloaded here.