Survey research and design in psychology/Lectures/Descriptives & graphing

Outline
Overviews descriptive statistics and graphical approaches to analysis of univariate data.
 * 1) Getting to know a data-set
 * 2) Parametric & non-parametric statistics & level of measurement
 * 3) Univariate descriptive statistics
 * 4) Univariate graphs
 * 5) Properties of the normal distribution
 * 6) Non-normal distributions

Readings

 * 1) Howitt and Cramer (2011a):
 * 2) Chapter 01 - Why you need statistics: Types of data (pp. 1-10)
 * 3) Chapter 02 - Describing variables: Tables and diagrams (pp. 11-22)
 * 4) Chapter 03 - Describing variables numerically: Averages, variation and spread (pp. 23-35)
 * 5) Chapter 04 - Shapes of distributions of scores (pp. 36-45)
 * 6) Chapter 05 - Standard deviation and z-scores: The standard unit of measurement in statistics (pp. 46-58)
 * 7) Howitt and Cramer (2014a):
 * 8) Chapter 01 - Why statistics? (pp. 1-16)
 * 9) Chapter 02 - Some basics: Variability and measurement (pp. 19-28)
 * 10) Chapter 03 - Describing variables: Tables and diagrams (pp. 29-43)
 * 11) Chapter 04 - Describing variables numerically: Averages, variation and spread (pp. 44-57)
 * 12) Chapter 05 - Shapes of distributions of scores (pp. 58-70)
 * 13) Chapter 06 - Standard deviation and z-scores: The standard unit of measurement in statistics (pp. 71-85)

Videos

 * 1) Video: Science is beautiful - explores 3 different visualisations, Florence Nightingale (health), genome overlaps, ocean currents (Nature Video, Youtube, 5:30 mins).
 * 2) Video: Is Pivot a turning point for the web? - demonstrates the potential for dynamic data visualisation in order to discover patterns and links (Gary Flake, TED talk - 6:25 mins).

Slides

 * Lecture slides (Google Slides)
 * 2018 handouts:
 * [[Media:SRDP Lecture03Handout DescriptivesGraphing 6slidesperpage.pdf|Download 6 slides to a page]]: SRDP Lecture03Handout DescriptivesGraphing 6slidesperpage.pdf
 * [[Media:SRDP Lecture03Handout DescriptivesGraphing 3slidesperpage.pdf|Download 3 slides to a page]]: SRDP Lecture03Handout DescriptivesGraphing 3slidesperpage.pdf