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Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)  1. '''Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)'''
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• What is it?
• Skew and kurtosis: definitions and magnitude rules of thumb
• Pictorial representations - in particular histograms, boxplots and stem and leaf displays
• Effect of outliers
• Power transformations
• Rank transformations
  * What is it?
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Regression   * Skew and kurtosis: definitions and magnitude rules of thumb
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• What is it?
• Expressing correlations (simple regression) in vector form
• Scatterplots
• Assumptions in regression
• Restriction of range of a correlation
• Comparing pairs of correlations
• Multiple regression
• Least squares
• Residual plots
• Stepwise methods
• Synergy
• Collinearity
  * Pictorial representations - in particular histograms, boxplots and stem and leaf displays
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Between subjects analysis of variance   * Effect of outliers
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• What is it used for?
• Main effects
• Interactions
• Simple effects
• Plotting effects
• Implementation in SPSS
• Effect size
• Model specification
• Latin squares
• Balance
• Venn diagram depiction of sources of variation
  * Power transformations
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Power analysis   * Rank transformations
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• Hypothesis testing
• Boosting power
• Effect sizes: definitions, magnitudes
• Power evaluation methods:description and implementation using an examples
a) nomogram
b) power calculators
c) SPSS macros
d) spreadsheets
e) power curves
f) tables
g) quick formula
 1. '''Regression'''
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Latent variable modelling – factor analysis and all that!   * What is it?
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• Path diagrams – a regression example
• Comparing correlations
• Exploratory factor analysis
• Assumptions of factor analysis
• Reliability testing (Cronbach’s alpha)
• Fit criteria in exploratory factor analysis
• Rotations
• Interpreting factor loadings
• Confirmatory factor models
• Fit criteria in confirmatory factor analysis
• Equivalence of correlated and uncorrelated models
• Cross validation as a means of assessing fit for different models
• Parsimony : determining the most important items in a factor analysis
  * Expressing correlations (simple regression) in vector form

  * Scatterplots

  * Assumptions in regression

  * Restriction of range of a correlation

  * Comparing pairs of correlations

  * Multiple regression

  * Least squares

  * Residual plots

  * Stepwise methods

  * Synergy

  * Collinearity

 1. '''Between subjects analysis of variance'''

  * What is it used for?

  * Main effects

  * Interactions

  * Simple effects

  * Plotting effects

  * Implementation in SPSS

  * Effect size

  * Model specification

  * Latin squares

  * Balance

  * Venn diagram depiction of sources of variation

 1. '''Power analysis'''

  * Hypothesis testing

  * Boosting power

  * Effect sizes: definitions, magnitudes

  * Power evaluation methods:description and implementation using an examples

   * nomogram

   * power calculators

   * SPSS macros

   * spreadsheets

   * power curves

   * tables

   * quick formula

 1. '''Latent variable modelling – factor analysis and all that!'''

  * Path diagrams – a regression example

  * Comparing correlations

  * Exploratory factor analysis

  * Assumptions of factor analysis

  * Reliability testing (Cronbach’s alpha)

  * Fit criteria in exploratory factor analysis

  * Rotations

  * Interpreting factor loadings

  * Confirmatory factor models

  * Fit criteria in confirmatory factor analysis

  * Equivalence of correlated and uncorrelated models

  * Cross validation as a means of assessing fit for different models

  * Parsimony : determining the most important items in a factor analysis

Synopsis of the Graduate Statistics Course 2007

  1. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

    • What is it?
    • Skew and kurtosis: definitions and magnitude rules of thumb
    • Pictorial representations - in particular histograms, boxplots and stem and leaf displays
    • Effect of outliers
    • Power transformations
    • Rank transformations
  2. Regression

    • What is it?
    • Expressing correlations (simple regression) in vector form
    • Scatterplots
    • Assumptions in regression
    • Restriction of range of a correlation
    • Comparing pairs of correlations
    • Multiple regression
    • Least squares
    • Residual plots
    • Stepwise methods
    • Synergy
    • Collinearity
  3. Between subjects analysis of variance

    • What is it used for?
    • Main effects
    • Interactions
    • Simple effects
    • Plotting effects
    • Implementation in SPSS
    • Effect size
    • Model specification
    • Latin squares
    • Balance
    • Venn diagram depiction of sources of variation
  4. Power analysis

    • Hypothesis testing
    • Boosting power
    • Effect sizes: definitions, magnitudes
    • Power evaluation methods:description and implementation using an examples
      • nomogram
      • power calculators
      • SPSS macros
      • spreadsheets
      • power curves
      • tables
      • quick formula
  5. Latent variable modelling – factor analysis and all that!

    • Path diagrams – a regression example
    • Comparing correlations
    • Exploratory factor analysis
    • Assumptions of factor analysis
    • Reliability testing (Cronbach’s alpha)
    • Fit criteria in exploratory factor analysis
    • Rotations
    • Interpreting factor loadings
    • Confirmatory factor models
    • Fit criteria in confirmatory factor analysis
    • Equivalence of correlated and uncorrelated models
    • Cross validation as a means of assessing fit for different models
    • Parsimony : determining the most important items in a factor analysis

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