EDPSY 507

Class Notes

Preliminary Material
Ethics.

Ethics Overheads.

I. INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS

A. Overview of Data Analysis

B. Notation

II. SIMPLE MODELS

A. Definitions of ERROR & parameter estimates

B. Graphing data

C. Models of ERROR and sampling distributions

D. Statistical inferences about parameter values

III. SIMPLE REGRESSION

A. Estimating models with a single continuous predictor

B. Statistical inference in models with single predictors

Part 2 of B

IV. MULTIPLE REGRESSION

A. Estimating parameters in multiple regression

B. Statistical inference in multiple regression

------- Computer Project 1

If you have completed the first Computer Project, you may look at the KEY.

C. Interpretation of partial regression coefficients and cautions.


Test 1

Test 1 will be given here. There are two parts. One in class, and the other take home.
The 2001 Take Home exam is also available.



Here is the Spring 2001 first test for EDPSY 507.

Ignore the last question on the exam.

V. OUTLIERS AND DATA HAVING UNDUE INFLUENCE

A. Outliers and their influence on regression

VI. INTERACTIONS AND POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION

A. Interactions between predictor variables

B. A general procedure for summarizing "simple" relationships

C. Complex Nonlinear Functions

VII. ANOVA AND ANCOVA MODELS REVISITED

A. One-way ANOVA

B. Part 2 One-way Anova

C. Factorial ANOVA

D Part 2 Factorial Anova



FINAL EXAM 406

Here is the data set you need for the final exam, and the final exam for EDPSY 406. Notice the test only has 10 questions. Each question is worth 4 points. This test and data set will be created in a new browser window so that you can use whatever tools you need.

E ANCOVA

F ANCOVA Part 2




Multivariate topics

The following topics are considered multivariate in that we are dealing with more than a single dependent variable.

VIII. CLUSTER ANALYSIS

A. Partitioning via Kmeans

B. Hierarchical clustering

VIIII. MULTIPLE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS

A.Some brief Discriminant Analysis notes.

X. PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS

A. Some brief factor notes and example output


B. An Excellent Texas Tutorial

Final Take Home Exam