W2: Summarizing and Fitting Models to Data

This is the module for Week 2. We will review some basic research design principles that will be relevant for this course and start to understand how to visualize and summarize data as well as start to think about basic descriptive statistics

Goals

• Understand the logic behind summarizing data
• Understand histograms and frequency distributions
• Discuss the concept of a statistical model and how it can be used to describe data
• Describe the concepts of central tendencies

Prep

Before Tuesday

• Watch: Summarizing Data. (See Google Sheets Solution Here)
• Read Chapter 2 from the Gravetter & Wallnau (2017) textbook.

Before Thursday

• Watch: Central Tendencies. (See Google Sheets Solution Here)
• Read Chapter 3 from the Gravetter & Wallnau (2017) textbook.

After Thursday

• See Apply section.

Try

Here you will find the slides for each class session as well as links to any demos/activities we may do in class.

Slides

W2: Slides 1

W2: Slides 2

Activity Links

W2: Activity 1

W2: Activity 2

W2: Activity 3

Apply

Here are the to-do’s for this week:

• Submit Week 2 Quiz

• Submit Problem Set 1 OR Opt out of Problem Sets

• Submit any lingering questions here!

• Extra credit opportunities:

  • Submit Exra Credit Questions
  • Submit Optional Meme Submission