Insights and Analyses

Author

Tyler R. Pritchard

Published

September 29, 2024

Welcome!

Report errors, recommendations, or concerns to tpritchard@mun.ca.

Latest Updates:

Jan 2025

  • Rewrote various chapters for parallel structure to help students

Dec 2024

  • Edits to various chapters
  • Updated with some interactive plots

Oct 2024

  • Edits to various chapters

Sept 2024

  • Reworking examples
  • Adding more detailed explanations
  • Fixing some markdown display errors
  • Adding more practice questions

Jan 2024

  • Various edits
  • Additional readings sections

Dec 2023

  • Variable types added
  • Updates to Scientific Method

About the course

From the university calendar:

PSYC 3950 Research Methods and Data Analysis in Psychology III will cover advanced research methods, including survey methods, and supporting statistical concepts and techniques. Designs will include single factor designs and multi-factor designs with both random and fixed factors. Supporting statistical concepts will include analysis of variance (ANOVA) from a linear model perspective, statistical power, and multiple regression, including model building. There may be a general introduction to multivariate statistical techniques. Ethical issues in research will be discussed in detail. Students will be required to design and carry out at least one research project from the design to the writeup stage, including an ethics review. (Grenfell Calendar)

About Dr. Pritchard

Dr. Pritchard is currently a TTA at Memorial University (Grenfell Campus). Please visit the Pritchard Lab website for more information.

About this book

This book is a companion to the PYSC3950 course. Please check back regularly for updates. It will slowly expand to be relevant for PSYC 2925 and PSYC 2950.

Additionally, this book may serve to support Grenfell Honours students when completing their relative analysis. While most example analysis are done using R, most are also available in common statistical packages such as SPSS, JASP, or SAS. Additional resources may be added for these packages at a later date.

This book is free to use. While you do not require permission, I ask you appropriately cite this document.

Pritchard, T. R. (2024). Insights and analyses: A course companion. https://bookdown.org/tylerrpritchard/psyc-3950-companion/

Using this e-Text

You can find chapters to the left. You can find subsections of the currently selected chapter to the right. For example, you are currently reading ‘Using this e-Text’.

Throughout the text I have put various questions. Some are more critical thinking-based. Others are directly related to statistics. I recommend following along with the practice questions.