THE ZEN
OF
EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

William D. Richards

November 14, 2006

 
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Introduction


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Introduction 
  2003 Assignments  1   2   3   4   5   6   extra tests  
Ch1Chapter 1 Scientific Research and Theory Research Design  Areas under the Normal curve8 Surver research Wk 1, 221
Ch2Chapter 2 Conceptualization


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Ch3Chapter 3 Operationalizing
Ch4Chapter 4 Validity and Reliability
Ch5Chapter 5 Sampling
Ch6Chapter 6 Univariate Descriptive Statistics
Ch7Chapter 7 Distributions
Ch8Chapter 8 Sampling Distributions
Ch9Chapter 9 Inferential Statistics
Ch10Chapter 10 Z-test of One Mean
Ch11Chapter 11 Crosstabulation
Ch12Chapter 12 Pres12
Ch13Chapter 13X Variance --> Covariance --> Correlation
Ch14Chapter 14X Regrerssion
Ch15Chapter 15 Statistical Significance
Ch16Chapter 16 Chi-square
Ch17Chapter 17 Z-test of the difference between two means
Ch18Chapter 18 tests of correlations
Ch19Chapter 19 t-test of the difference between two means
Ch20Chapter 20 Pres20
Ch21Chapter 21 Pres21

  Things.to.know:things to know for the final exam    more things.to.know:more things to know   Appendices  A    B   C       More crosstab tables:more crosstab tables   
    equation pages:   equation page   equation page      final:equation page pop/soda      Katrina      Sampling Variability (margin of error):sampling variability