This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Lecture Notes

Buy at Amazon The lecture note materials for this course include contributions from Dr. Peter Tse as well as adapted examples from the required course text: Heiman, Gary W. Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, July 2002. ISBN: 0618220178.

Lec # Topics
1 Introduction to Statistics (PDF)
2

Describing Data

Graphs, Central Tendency, and Spread (PDF)

3 Probability, I (PDF)
4

Probability, I (cont.) (PDF)

Probability, II (PDF)

5 Random Variables (PDF)
6 Sampling Theory (PDF)
7 Confidence Intervals (PDF)
8 Single-sample Hypothesis Testing, I (PDF)
9 Single-sample Hypothesis Testing, II (PDF)
10 Two-sample Hypothesis Testing, I (PDF)
11 Two Sample t-Test
12 Two-sample Hypothesis Testing, II (PDF)
13 Experimental Design, I (PDF)
14

Exam Review

Experimental Design, II (PDF)

15

Experimental Design, II (cont.)

Regression and Correlation, I (PDF)

16 Regression and Correlation, II (PDF)
17 Regression and Correlation, III (PDF)
18 Chi-square Tests (PDF)
19 One-way ANOVA, I (PDF)
20 One-way ANOVA, II (PDF)
21 Two-way ANOVA, I (PDF)
22 Review (with TA's) and Statistical Learning   
23 Two-way ANOVA, II (PDF)
24 Review