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Graduate Course
Currently teaching at USU
EDUC
Introduction to Using R for Research
Workshop Series
PSY 6600 or EDUC 6600
Statistical Foundations
This course covers research design and statistical concepts for research in education, human services, and psychology, with an emphasis on the selection and interpretation of statistical analyses.
PSY 7610 or EDUC 7610
Regression Analysis
This course is an advanced treatment of research design and statistical concepts and issues in educational, human services, and psychological research.
PSY 7650
Multilevel and Marginal Models
Coverage of multilevel (i.e., mixed-effects, hierarchical linear), and marginal (GEE) models for both continuous and categorical outcomes. Includes application of these methods to many types of cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs (e.g., experimental, case-control, cohort, cross-over, complex sample, randomized controlled trials).
Undergraduate Courses
Past courses taught at USU
Psychological Statistics
This course is an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics for the behavioral sciences. Topics include measures of central tendency and variability, sampling distributions, and hypothesis testing procedures including t-tests, analysis of variance, and correlation and regression.
Statistical Methods
Introduction to statistical concepts, graphical techniques, probability, distributions, estimation, one and two sample testing, chi-square tests, and simple linear regression, one-way ANOVA.
Introduction to Statistics
Descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Emphasis on conceptual understanding and statistical thinking. Examples presented from many different areas.
College Algebra
Functions: graphs, transformations, combinations and inverses. Polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic functions and applications. Systems of equations and matrices. Graphing calculator required.
Intermediate Algebra
Linear equations and inequalities, polynomials and exponents, rational expressions, roots and radicals, quadratic equations, lines, systems of equations and inequalities, applied problems , factoring, graphs, the quadratic formula , completing the square and complex numbers.