Instructor: Michael McCourt,
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Applied Mathematics, IIT.
Email:
mccomic@mcs.anl.gov (or mccomic@iit.edu) Web Page: math.iit.edu/~mccomic/525 Office Hours and Location: MW 11-12, E1 105d
Course Contents:
Students wil be proficient in basic SPSS skills.
Students wil understand and be abe to compute statndard central
tendencies and variabilities of samples and populations.
Students will understand, and be able to compute for simple
examples, probabiities of events.
Students will be able to use SPSS to perform hypothesis tests and
compute confidence intervals using z, t, and Chi-Squared distributions,
and also using ANOVA.
Students will be able to use SPSS to compute correlation and
regression coefficients.
Assignments: This course will use WebAssign for many assignments
throughout the semester. There will also be some physical homework which will
be posted here as well as on BlackBoard.
Enrollment: Not applicable for Math majors
Textbook: F. J. Gravetter, L. B. Wallnau,
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 8th ed.,
Cengage, ISBN: 9781111830991.
Note that if you are so inclined, you may feel free to purchase an older edition
of the textbook.
Homework assignments may be created independently of the problems from the text.
Other Required Material: SPSS Student Version, available on IIT machines