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Required Resources
Text
Read from the course text, Statistics for the Behavioral & Social Sciences :
· Chapter 3: The Standard Normal Distribution and z Scores
· Chapter 4: Applying z to Groups
· Chapter 5: The t-tests
Article
Nair, U. S., Collins, B. N., & Napolitano, M. A. (2013). Differential effects of a body image exposure session on smoking urge between physically active and sedentary female smokers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27(1), 322-327. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
· This is an article on body image intervention and its effect on smoking urge that used t-tests for analysis. This article is required to complete the assignment for Week Three.
Websites
The Critical Thinking Community . (http://www.criticalthinking.org)
· This website teaches and promotes the main tenets of critical thinking. There are some excellent articles that can help you better understand what critical thinking is and how to utilize it in everyday life.
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Recommended Resources
Multimedia
Statistics Learning Centre. (2011, December 5). Hypothesis tests, p-value-statistics help [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zZYBALbZgg
· This is an easy to understand video that takes you step-by-step through the basic hypothesis testing process. It is helpful for learning what a p-value is and how statistical significance works.
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Uniview Worldwide Ltd. (Producer). (2005) Inferential statistics [Video file]. In Research methods in the social sciences. Retrieved from the Films On Demand database.
· This is a short and fun video on inferential statistics from the On Demand films in the Ashford University Library. It explores setting significance levels, tests of difference, the sign test, degrees of freedom, Yates correction, expected frequencies, parametric tests, and plastic interval scales among other concepts.
Websites
VassarStats: Website for Statistical Computation . (http://vassarstats.net)
· This website includes tools to calculate many of the statistical tests we cover in this course including t-tests, ANOVA, correlation, and regression. Each calculator includes a tutorial and/or walkthrough.
Web Center for Social Research Methods . (http://socialresearchmethods.net)
· This website includes links to numerous tools and tutorials relating to statistical concepts, calculations, and scale development.