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MIT 2007-2009

Education Statistics
Winter 2008
Fridays 8:30-10 and 10:00-11:30
Sem II C3109

The goal of the statistics portion of the program is for you to understand statistics well enough so that you can properly analyze and give a valid critique of the research you are including in your Masters Paper.

Statistics Working Groups.

Grp	Group 1	Group 2
1	Amanda Andrea LauraC	Jaimie LauraH Steph
2	Claudia Joe Mandy	Allen Chalen Megan
3	Bec Johan Karina	Ashley Pamela Yonk
4	Alex Kathy Maria	Betsy Stephen Tarra
5	Anne Desiree Kari	Nicole Sammi Sean
6	Katy Lorri Shelley	Robbie Sandra Terry

Weekly schedule of topics:

Week 1: Sampling	Chapters 1,2,3,4 of Moore, 5th Ed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics) http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/webtexts/stat02.htm#POINTS http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/sampling.php Power Point on Sampling Handout on Margin of Error Estimate
Week 2: Experiments	http://www.math.lsu.edu/~madden/M1100/hypothesis.pdf http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/esc.html#Relations%20between%20variables http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/design.php hpttp://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/Gloexp.htm#StatisticalExperiments Power Point on Sampling 2 PowerPoint on Experiments.
Week 3: Measurement	Chapter 8 of Text
Week 4: Graphing	http://www.davidmlane.com/hyperstat/normal_distribution.html http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras/jsm/NormalDensity/NormalDensity.html http://www.netmba.com/statistics/distribution/normal/ PowerPoint SpreadSheet
Week 5: Normal Distributions	On-Line Stat Text that looks pretty good. Normal Table (.doc) Normal Table(.html) Normal Graph (.doc) Normal Graph(.html)
Week 6: t-test, chi-square test	The t-test Chi-squared test Distribution Tables
Week 7: Probablility
Week 8: Examples and Chi-Squared	Example1 Example 2 Example 3 ChiSquared Example Power Point
Week 9: Simulation, Expected values
Week 10: Confidence Intervals
Week 11: ANOVA and F Statistic	Example
Week 12: Confidence Intervals and Significance Tests
Week 13: Chi Squared