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

Lectures (part 2)

Lectures will take place in Hilary Term on Monday 10am in Lecture Theatre A in the Department of Experimental Psychology

Lecture Slides, Notes and Exercise Sheets

Exercise sheets will appear on this page on the FRIDAY BEFORE EACH LECTURE.
Some data sets discussed in the lectures or notes are posted here, just for your interest.

Complete lecture notes (so far),  updated 07/03/2010
    Lecture note bibliography (4 pages), updated 02/02/2010


Date
Material
Exercises
Topic
Lecture 9 : 18 Jan, 2010
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
 
Confidence Intervals
Normal Approximation
Lecture 10 : 25 Jan, 2010
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
T test
Introduction to Sampling
Lecture 11 : 1 Feb, 2010
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
Comparing Distributions
Lecture 12 : 8 Feb, 2010
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
Non-parametric tests
Lecture 13 : 15 Feb, 2010 Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
Non-parametric tests, part II
Power
Lecture 14 : 22 Feb, 2010 Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
ANOVA and the F test
Lecture 15 : 1 March, 2010
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
Regression
Lecture 16 : 8 March, 2010
Lecture notes
Slides
note: Regression problems are all on one sheet
Regression, part II






Lectures (part 1)



Date
Material
Exercises
Topic
Lecture 1 : 12 Oct, 2009
Lecture notes
Quebec births data set
"Baby-boom" data set
Slides
Exercises  Plotting Data and Basic Statistical Measure
Lecture 2 : 19 Oct, 2009 Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
for Lectures 2 and 3
Probability I
Lecture 3 : 26 Oct, 2009
Lecture notes
Slides

Probability II
Lecture 4 : 2 Nov, 2009
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
The Binomial distribution
Lecture 5 : 9 Nov, 2009
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
The Poisson distribution
Lecture 6 : 16 Nov, 2009
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
The Normal distribution
Lecture 7 : 23 Nov, 2009
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
Significance tests
Lecture 8 : 30 Nov, 2009
Lecture notes
Slides
Exercises
Chi-squared 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.