Statistics Primer (Revised)

Dr. Christopher L. Heffner
Published:      February 03, 2004

Businesswoman in office pointing at monitor with notes on itStatistics Primer: Unit I

Introduction

Descriptive Statistics

Data Tables

Graphing

Central Tendency

Standard Deviation

Statistics Primer: Unit II

Correlations

Pearson’s r

Measurement

Validity

Reliability

Statistics Primer: Unit III

Standard Scores

Experimental Methods

Internal Validity

External Validity

The True Experiment

Types of Research

Statistics Primer: Unit IV

Inferential Statistics

Estimation

Confidence Intervals

Hypothesis Testing

Type I and Type II

t-Tests

Critical Values

Statistics Primer: Unit V

Analysis of Variance

Regression Analysis

Factor Analysis

Meta-Analysis

Summary of Statistical Techniques