PSYCH 317

Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Psychology

Prerequisites

Minimum 2.5 grade in PSYCH 209; 2.0 in either MATH 124, MATH 134, or MATH 144.

Description

Probability theory as a model for scientific inference. Probabilistic variables and experimental outcomes, conditional probability, binomial and related distributions, experiments as samples, statistics and sampling distributions, the normal distribution, confidence intervals, problems of estimation from experiments.