Instructor
|
Lee A. Kirkpatrick
office: Millington 249
phone: 221-3997
e-mail: lakirk@wm.edu |
Class Schedule
|
Lecture: Tue. & Thu. 12:30 - 1:50,
Millington 230
Lab: Fri. 2:00 - 3:20, Millington 123 |
Required Texts
|
1) Howell, David C. (2002). Statistical methods
for psychology
(5th Edition). Belmont, CA: Duxbury. [required]
2) Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Feeney, B. C.
(2000). A simple
guide to SPSS for Windows: For Versions 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0.
Belmont,
CA: Wadsworth. [recommended]
Additional readings will be available either on
reserve (at Swem
and/or electronic reserve) or via the WWW.
|
|
Overview and Goals
PSY 633/392 (Multivariate Analysis) is designed as the second half of
our
2-semester graduate statistics course sequence. As noted last semester,
I will treat this course essentially as "Advanced Statistics Part
2."
This course is designed to pick up where PSY 631/391 left off
in our
survey of advanced statistics for psychological research. The
first
segment of the course will be devoted to completing our survey of
analysis
of variance, beginning with contrasts/planned comparisons in oneway
designs
and then moving on to factorial independent-groups designs,
within-subjects
(repeated-measures) designs and mixed designs. One "truly
multivariate"
technique -- multivariate ANOVA, or "MANOVA" -- will be covered here as
an alternative method for analyzing within-subjects designs.
We'll
then switch gears to cover multiple regression, and revisit analysis of
variance from the more general perspective of general linear models
(GLM).
In this context we'll also cover analysis of covariance (ANCOVA).
Unfortunately, this will leave us little time to cover other "truly
multivariate"
methods, so I will provide only a quick survey of some of these methods
near the end of the semester.
The purpose of both of these courses is to prepare students to
analyze
real data from real research, and to understand these analyses at a
conceptual
level. Toward this end, we will focus more on concepts and computer
analyses,
and less on hand calculations and mathematics (particularly next
semester,
when hand calculations become virtually impossible for many of the
advanced
techniques covered). Discussion of issues in research design and
philosophy
of science will be sprinkled throughout the course. I strongly
encourage
you to bring your own statistical questions and problems to class. The
material will make much more sense, and sink in more deeply, when you
think
about it in the context of your own research rather than someone else's
(i.e., your textbook author's and my) examples.
Laboratory
Our laboratory period is scheduled on Friday afternoons from 2:00-3:20,
and we will meet every week unless I announce otherwise. As in PSY
631/391,
labs will be devoted largely to computer applications (using SPSS),
review
of homework problems, and discussion of students' own research and
data.
I may also assign additional readings periodically for discussion
during
lab sessions.
back to top
|