FF:PSA_004 Math and stat methods psych I - Course Information
PSA_004 Mathematical and statistical methods for psychologists I
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Helena Klimusová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Martin Jelínek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Štěpán Veselý, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Zdenka Stránská, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 11:40–12:25 B2.13
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
PSA_004/03: Wed 14:10–14:55 B2.33, M. Jelínek, H. Klimusová - Prerequisites
- PSA_038 Methodology I
PSA_038 Methodology of psychology I - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Psychology (programme FF, M-PS) (4)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to: understand basic concepts of statistics and their application in psychological research; use a special statistical software (SPSS); entry and transform the research data; master basic data analysis procedures (descriptive statistics, mean comparisons, t-tests, ANOVA); read and understand the results of basic data analysis.
- Syllabus
- Introduction to statistics;
- Descriptive statistics;
- Inferential statistics - basic concepts;
- Estimation procedures;
- Hypothesis testing - the one-sample case;
- Hypothesis testing - the two-sample case;
- Hypothesis testing - the analysis of variance (the logic of analysis of variance, one-way ANOVA, factorial ANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA, MANOVA).
- Literature
- Hendl, Jan. Přehled statistických metod zpracování dat. Praha: Portál, 2004
- HEALEY, Joseph F. Statistics: A Tool for Social Research. 3rd ed. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, Inc., 1993, 555 pp. ISBN 0-534-17742-5. info
- DISMAN, Miroslav. Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost : příručka pro uživatele. Praha: Karolinum, 1993, 374 stran. ISBN 8070668229. info
- SWOBODA, Helmut. Moderní statistika. Translated by Jaromír Císař. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1977, 351 s. URL info
- GREGOR, Miroslav, Svatomíra PŘADKOVÁ and Daniela SPĚŠNÁ. Statistika pro sociology. 2. nepřeprac. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1993, 141 s. ISBN 8021005602. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, exercises in computer room, homework assignments.
- Assessment methods
- To pass the colloquium, student has to reach 70% of total points obtained from exercises and homework assignments and from a multiple-choice test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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