Data Analysis (PSYC 2520)

Welcome! This is the course website for Data Analysis, taught by Professor Abhilasha Kumar at the Department of Psychology at Bowdoin College.

This course is an introduction to the statistical procedures commonly used by psychologists to describe, analyze, and interpret data. You will acquire skills to empirically test questions and claims about human behavior and mental processes. You will learn the types of inferences and conclusions that can (and cannot) be drawn from various scientific research procedures. As such, this course provides a conceptual and mathematical understanding of common statistical procedures.

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Note to students

We will use the resources on this website along with Canvas throughout the semester. This website will always contain the most up-to-date syllabus, slides, and course policies. The syllabus, list of reading material, and other resources can all be accessed using the tabs at the top of the page or through the sidebar.

You can start exploring the website now: Start with the syllabus!

Looking forward to meeting you in class!

If you have questions, please email me. If you think other students might have the same question, then please ask your question on the Canvas discussion board for this course.

Acknowledgments

This course has been developed using the materials and wisdom generously shared by the following faculty:

Open-educational resource

This is an open-educational resource that is free to use, share, copy, edit, and remix, with attribution and following the CC BY-SA 4.0 creative-commons license.

The suite is developed using open-source software (R, RStudio, Bookdown). The source code for this project is available at https://github.com/teaching-me.github.io/data-analysis. These materials are being actively developed.