An Outline of Statistics and Graphics Used in the Course

Basic Displays of Information

• Frequency Tables

• Crosstabulations

• Pie Charts

• Bar Charts

• Histograms

• Stem-and-Leaf Plots

• Box Plots

• Scatterplots

Measures of Central Tendency

• Mode

• Median

• Mean

Comparing Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of Dispersion

• Percentages and Percentiles

• Range

• Interquartile Range

• Variance and Standard Deviation

The Normal Curve

Confidence Intervals

• CI of the Mean

• CI of the Proportion

One-sample Hypothesis Testing

• Two-tailed (non-directional) Test

  • of the mean

  • of the proportion

• One-tailed (directional) Test

  • of the mean

  • of the proportion

Independent Samples Hypothesis Testing

• Two-tailed (non-directional) Test

  • of the mean

  • of the median

• One-tailed (directional) Test

  • of the mean

  • of the median

Chi-square

Correlation

• Bivariate

  • Pearson'r r

  • Spearman's rho

• Partial

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

• Univariate (one-way)

• Multivariate

Regression

• Bivariate

  • OLS

  • WLS

• Multiple

• Multiple Regression with Dummy Variables

• Logistic Regression