Psy 207B Introduction
to Statistics Fall
2001
Erwin Segal
Final
Exam Study
Topics
1. Sampling distributions (mean, z, t, F, proportion)
Compare sampling distributions to
samples
2. Hypothesis testing; Null Hypotheses; Alternative hypotheses
decisions
critical values
Type 1 and type 2 errors: a
and b
3. Power- What is power? What influences power? Evaluating
power
4. Point and Interval estimates of parameters
5. Direct difference t tests: compute and interpret
6. Independent sample t tests: compute and interpret
7. significance and effect size
8. Correlation : compute and interpret
9. Regression
10. Tests for the significance of a correlation coefficient
11. Simple analysis of variance: compute and interpret
12. post hoc and planned comparisons
13. Two-way analysis of variance: compute and interpret
14. Main effects and interactions