Paper 4.2-Statistics in Psychology
Unit |
Content |
Time (Hours) |
Domain |
| I | Introduction to Statistics in Psychology
Meaning, scope and purpose; population and sample Types of statistics – descriptive, inferential Representation of data – frequency distributions, percentiles, graphs Sampling methods Data entry in Software |
13
4 2 7 |
Must know Desirable to Know Nice to Know |
| II | Measures of Central Tendency and Standard Normal distribution
Mean, median, mode Properties of normal curve; skewness and kurtosis, normal distribution Variability – range, variance, standard deviation Applications of Normal Distribution Binomial distributions |
13
5 3 5
|
Must know Desirable to Know Nice to Know |
| III | Inferential Statistics
Purpose, techniques; standard error, confidence intervals; t-test Type I and Type II errors; Hypothesis testing Correlation-Coefficient – Pearson, Spearman Non-Parametric Statistics Using computer programs to perform t- test |
14
5 4 5 |
Must know
Desirable to Know Nice to Know |
Syllabus Books:
- Kothari, C.R. (2004). Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. New Age International Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India.
- Garrett, P. (1968).Statistics in Psychology and Education.
Reference Books:
- Michael Cowles. (2001). Statistics in Psychology: An Historical Perspective.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- P. Bakeman. (1992). Understanding Social Science Statistics: A Spreadsheet Approach.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992
- J. Reichmann. (1961). Use and Abuse of Statistics.Oxford University Press.
- Kault. (2003). Statistics with Common Sense.Greenwood Press, 2003
- S. Everitt. (2001). Statistics for Psychologists: An Intermediate Course. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.