Credits： 4 (2 for each semester)	Instructor：Wang, Yun-Tung
Class hours：Thursday, 3& 4 class 10:20 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Practice hours：Monday & Tuesday afternoon 12:20 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.	E-mail: ytwang@ntu.edu.tw
Classroom：R103	Telephone number：33661258 (office：406)

Course goal:
This course intends to strengthen students' statistics concept and the ability to read statistical articles and use statistics software to implement quantitative research.

Proceeding way：
Lecture and discussion, focus on practice, and SPSS（SAS & EXCEL）tuition.

Class schedule：
SemesterⅠ：
Part one: Introduction

Week 1（9/22）：Introduction and basic concept of statistics
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap.1；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap.1

Week 2（9/29）：Level of measurement & The process of Science research
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 2

Part two: Descriptive Statistics
Week 3（10/6）：Frequency Distribution & Graphs（assignment 1）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 3；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 2

Week 4（10/13）：Measure of Central Tendency & Measure of Variation（assignment 2）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap.4；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap.3 and 4

Week 5（10/20）：Normal distribution & Standard scores（assignment 3）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 5；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 5 and 6

Week 6（10/27）：Correlation Coefficient（assignment 4）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 6；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 7

Week 7（11/3）：Computer practice

Week 8（11/10）：Midterm exam

Week 9（11/17）：Simple linear Regression 1（assignment 5）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 7；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 8

Week 10（11/24）：Simple linear Regression 2
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 7；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 8

Part three: Inferential Statistics
Week 11（12/1）：Random sampling & Probability-basic concepts of inferential statistics（v.s. Descriptive Statistics）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 8；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 9

Week 12（12/8）：The Binomial Distribution & Hypotheses Test（Ⅰ）（assignment 6）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 9 and 10；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 6 and 11

Week 13（12/15）：The Binomial Distribution & Hypotheses Test（Ⅱ）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 9 and 10；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 6 and 11

Week 14（12/22）：Sampling Distribution & Z test（Ⅰ）（assignment 7）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 12；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 11

Week 15（12/29）：Sampling Distribution & Z test（Ⅱ）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 12；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 11 and12

第Week 16（1/5）：Computer practice

Week 17（1/12）：Final exam

Happy Holiday!
Semester Ⅱ：
Week 1（2/23）：Review Semester Ⅰ& Preview

Week 2（3/2）：One sample Student's t test（assignment 1）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 13；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 11

Week 3（3/9）：Independent group & Correlated group Student's t test（Ⅰ）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 14；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 12

Week 4（3/16）：Independent group & Correlated group Student's t test（Ⅱ）（assignment 2）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 14；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 12

Week 5（3/23）：Chi-square test（Ⅰ）（assignment 3）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 18；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 13

Week 6（3/30）：Chi-square test（Ⅱ）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 18；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 13

Week 7（4/6）：One-way ANOVA（Ⅰ）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 15；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 14

Week 8（4/13）：Computer practice

Week 9（4/20）：Midterm exam

Week 10（4/27）：One-way ANOVA（Ⅱ）（assignment 4）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 15；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 14

Week 11（5/4）：Two-way ANOVA(Ⅰ)
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 15；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 16

Week 12（5/11）：Two-way ANOVA（Ⅱ）
Chung-Dau Pan、June-Sheng Guo，Chap. 15；Ching-Shan Lin（1995），Chap. 1 Chap. 16

Week 13（5/18）：Multivariate regression analysis (Ⅰ)
Lewis-Beck, Chapter 3; Kerlinger, Chapter 33-34.

Week 14（5/25）：Multivariate regression analysis (Ⅱ) （assignment 5）
Lewis-Beck, Chapter 3; Kerlinger, Chapter 33-34.

Week 15（6/1）：Logistic regression analysis (Ⅰ)
Hosmer & Lemeshow, Chapter 1,2; Tabachnick & Fidell, Chapter 12.

Week 16（6/8）：Logistic regression analysis (Ⅱ) （assignment 6）
Hosmer & Lemeshow, Chapter 3,5; Tabachnick & Fidell, Chapter 12.

Week 17（6/15）：Computer practice

Week 18（6/22）：Final exam

Textbook：
1. Pan, C.D. & Guo, J.S.（Translators，2005）. The Statistics for Behavior Sciences，7th ed., Taipei：Yei-Yei.

2. Follette, W.C. & Pagano, R.R. (1998). Study Guide to Accompany Understanding Statistics. (5th Edition). St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co.

3. Lin, C.S.（1995）. The Statistics for Psychology and Education，1st ed., Taipei：Tung-Hua.

References：
1. Li, P.L.（2000）. The Statistics Analysis for Social Research, 1st ed., Taipei：Ju-Liu.

2. Hosmer, D.W. & Lemeshow, S. (1989). Applied Logistic Regression. NY: JohnWiley & Sons.

3. Kerlinger, F.N. (1991). Foundation of Behavioral Research. (3rd Edition). NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

4. Lewis-Beck, M.S. (1980). Applied Regression: An introduction, Sage Publication.

5. Tabachnick, B.G. & Fidell, L.S. (1989). Using Multivariate Statistics. (2nd Edition). NY: Harper Collins Publishers.

6. Cohen, J. （1988）. Statistical power analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. 2nd edition, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Grading：
1. Participation and discussion 10%
2. Assignments 30%
3. Midterm exam 30% 　　　
4. Final exam 30%