PYF 7706 ADVANCED STATISTICS (3)

The course will cover the necessary statistical techniques employed in contemporary behavioral science research and program evaluation to analyze research data, understand, and critically review statistical findings in empirical papers; present empirical results to other scholars; and run statistical analyses using SPSS. Through the Advanced Statistics class, students develop an understanding of the philosophy of science and scientific method; descriptive and inferential statistics; univariate and multivariate analysis of variance and co-variance (one-way and factorial); regression techniques; mediation/moderation; power calculation and corrections for multiple comparisons. After taking this course, students will know how to handle primary behavioral science data, explore it, and helpfully present the results. Students will receive a broad introduction to some of the fundamental tools and concepts of statistics for representing, visualizing, modeling, and interpreting data.