Undergraduate Course: Statistics and Experimental Design (LASC10033)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Language Sciences |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | An introduction to good design and analysis of scientific studies of behaviour, the course covers issues in experimental design, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| An understanding of internal and external validity, pertinent experimental designs, data as distributions; a grasp of statistical inference, ability to employ a statistical package to run commonly used descriptive and inferential statistics, and to interpret the results. |
Assessment Information
Assessment information:
Independent project (50%). Though students will prepare the work ahead of time, most of it will be delivered in an all-day class test format.
Final examination (50%)
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
RUNS FOR 10 WEEKS. 2 LECTURE HOURS IN ALL WEEKS, + PRACTICAL HOURS IN 9 WEEKS. = 22 + 9 = 31 HOURS |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ellen Bard
Tel: (0131 6)50 3951
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Course secretary | Ms Stephanie Fong
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