You
should be reasonably familiar with the topics below from your undergraduate
statistics course. We will review some
of this material in class. Review your
undergraduate textbook and notes to brush up on other topics, or sit in on an undergraduate
course if you need to.
z-scores and the standard normal
distribution
Correlation and regression
(e.g., Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient; fitting a straight line
to data)
Probability
Sampling distributions
One-sample t statistic
t for independent means
t for correlated means
Non-parametric statistics