Psych. Statistics: User Notes

User Notes
Contains: Introduction, Viewing & Printing Tips, & Navigational Aids

Introduction

This site contains materials for a college level undergraduate statistics course. The approach places emphasis on practical application. Examples are shown with hand computations and with the Minitab statistical program (v13-15). There are a few of MS Excel spreadsheets as well. The text used as a supplement for the course is McCall, R. B. (2001). Fundamental Statistics for Behavioral Sciences (8-th edition). NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company.

The material is divided into chapters and consists of text, tables, equations, and figures, in a hypermedia format. Minitab tutorials and some Excel spreadsheets are linked to the chapters as are homework assignments. The material is designed for use in a classroom with a presentation device. The students typically print the lectures (preferably on a color printer) in advance. To give the user a quick idea of the general appearance of equations and figures, an example of each follows.

Example Equation - showing the defining formula for a standard deviation:

Example Figure - looking at kurtosis:

Viewing & Printing Tips

Please change the default font of your browser to a sans serif font such as Arial. This will match the fonts used in the equations more closely. To do this with internet explorer, choose the tools menu, internet options, then choose the "fonts" button at the bottom of the general tab, and finally, choose "Arial" for the web page font.
There should be a symbol font resident on your computer. Some examples of symbols used in this document follow (if you don't see them, you will need to install a symbol font). For most computers, this shouldn't be a problem.

Alpha Beta Sum Mew Sigma Not
equal +& - greater than
or equal to less than
or equal to about

a b ĺ m s š ą ł Ł ť
If you are presenting the material in front of a class, increase the default font size of your browser so students will have an easier time reading the text of the material. This will help make the size of the text font and that of the font used in the equations more similar as well (the equations are actually pictures).
When printing the pages in Internet Explorer, you can change the size of the document in the print preview toolbar in the drop down box where it says "shrink to fit". Choose a value like 85% and the document will consume less pages.

Navigational Aids

Icon	Meaning
	Table of Contents for This Site
	Index of Materials at this Site Topics, Minitab Examples, Spreadsheets, & HW Assignments.
	American Psychological Association Format Guide A writing style guide.
	Dr. Plonsky's Home Page

Alpha	Beta	Sum	Mew	Sigma	Not equal	+& -	greater than or equal to	less than or equal to	about
a	b	ĺ	m	s	š	ą	ł	Ł	ť