UAlbany Psychology Statistics Courses Support Page

This page is designed to provide supplemental resources for statistics courses taught in the Psychology Department. Links to web resources include tutorials, online textbooks, and glossaries. Several links to publisher's web sites for some of the textbooks used in psychology statistics classes are also provided.

Applets called Shiny applets facilitate learning several concepts and are found below. We also provide a set of instructional modules that teach some basic skills with spreadsheets that can facilitate the computations required for learning several descriptive statistics as well as some inferential tests.A set of Java Applets can also be found. These applets provide an interactive way to master several core concepts in statistical analysis.

APSY210 Stat TA Office Hours - Fall 2024
	The Psychology department has staffed the APSY210 TA pool with several TAs and office hours are available througout the week. Students are advised to take advantage of this assistance. The TAs are not "tutors" but can be very helpful in guiding students when they have questions. THESE OFFICE HRS WILL BEGIN ON AUG 29. Hours are held in SS132 Monday Kayla: 9am – 11:30am Tuesday Anna: 1:30pm – 4:30pm Wednesday Alyssa: 9:45am – 2:45pm Anna: 12pm – 2pm Thursday Pierce: 12:15pm – 4:45pm Friday Kayla: 12pm – 2:30pm Additional review session hours are held on some Fridays (time TBA) in SS134. Instructors will be notified of the exact days when these sessions will be held. When inclement weather forces the University to go to remote teaching, these office hours may be held via zoom. When you log in to the zoom link, if the TA is not already there, please be patient. We think that zoom issues an email to the host whenever someone is in the waiting room. Zoom links are be posted here. TA's may also offer hours via these zoom links when illness occurs - notes will be posted on the SS131 office door. You will have to sign in with your UA credentials - do a "sign in with SSO" with the zoom app once you click the link. Alyssa: https://albany.zoom.us/j/6796971429?pwd=dGNRRjhOTEhraU0yaFdRWURoYldIdz09 Kayla: https://albany.zoom.us/j/94473350725?pwd=Vk9WNm1rWHZmT1l0bWVXZTlxRStxUT09 Anna https://albany.zoom.us/j/9727070469?pwd=WlVMUFhKQkVnaS8vZk1CRVJOQ3pnZz09 Pierce: https://albany.zoom.us/j/5953009773?pwd=UEJDTmtuZjdMMVdyMVZ5YTh3ejJ4dz09 Students are advised to monitor this page for any changes.

R/Shiny Applications for Learning Statistical Concepts Note that these applications are currently being edited, developed and expanded. Check back often. (Shiny apps developed by B. Dudek, Univeristy at Albany using the Shiny package from RStudio and R) These shiny apps do not work well with Internet Explorer at the moment. Use Firefox, Chrome, Safari.
Probability Distribution Apps (visualizations to supplement/replace textbook tables of these distributions)
	Binomial Distribution
	Standard Normal Distribution
	Student's "t" Distribution
	Chi-square Distribution
	F Distribution
Univariate and Bivariate Data and Computation Visualizations
	Univariate Description and Graphs
	Visualize Sum of Squares and Variance
	Visualize Bivariate Correlation and Covariance - the Rectangles App.
	Simple Regression Simulation, - visualize predicted values and linear fit
	Visualize components of LOESS regression fits NEW! Check it out!
	Outlier impact on regression fit NEW, check it out
Core Concepts Related to Inference
	Sampling Distributions and Central Limit Theorem Visualization
	Effect Sizes and Distribution Overlap NEW, check it out
	P-value distribution visualization NEW, check it out
	Visualize Type II Error Rates in a One-sample test of a Mean
	Visualize Confidence Intervals of the Mean
	Confidence Interval Overlap and p values
Other Miscl Apps/Docs
	Orthogonal Polynomials and "Trend Analysis" in an ANOVA context
	Visualize interactions, simple main effects, simple slopes and model surfaces in 2-IV linear models
	A gentle introduction to Maximum Liklihood Estimation NEW, check it out

Java Applets for Learning Statistical Concepts
	Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
	Duke Statistical Applets Page
	Vadum/Rankin Applet Collection
	CUWU Statistics Program
	West: Histogram Bins
	West: Central Limit Theorem
	West: Let's make a deal
	West: Confidence Interval
	West: Regression and Correlation
	Stanton: Probability and Statistics Demos, CSUSB
	Rossman/Chance Applets

	Mann: Companion Web site to "Introductory Statistics" This set of applets is very well done.

Instructional Modules for Using Excel in Statistical Calculations - under Revision. Some may not work; B. Dudek
	Topic	Link (all use Flash)
	Mean, Variance and Standard Deviation - basic methods with spreadsheets	module_e1
	Standardizing Scores ("Z-scores")	module_e2
	Adding a Constant or Multiplying by A constant Also, using Excel's built-in functions for mean, variance and Std Dev	module_e3

	Independent Samples test of Difference between two means	module_e5
	Simple Correlation and Regression	forthcoming

Companion Web Sites for Statistics Textbooks
	Aron, Aron and Coups. Statistics for Psychology. Pearson, 2006, 4rd Ed.
	Aron, Aron and Coups. Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 3/e: A Brief Course. Pearson, 2004
	Deveaux, Velleman, Bock. Intro Stats, 4th ed, Pearson, 2007
	Gravetter and Wallnau. Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. 7th Ed. Wadsworth, 2007
	Heiman. Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Science. 5th Ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2005
	Nolan and Heinzen. Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. Worth, 2007
	Sprinthall: not yet located a companion web site.

Statistics Humor
	Profession Jokes:Statistics
	A gallery of statistics Jokes (Ramseyer)
	From Science Jokes
	Statz Rappers (You Tube)
	Mean Median and Mode (You Tube)
	Standard Deviation Man (You Tube)

Tutors at UA
Students should contact the Psychology Dept Advising Center for information about tutor availability on the UA campus

University at Albany Psychology Department
Statistics Courses Support Page

Resources and Links

OnLine Resources

APSY210 Stat TA Office Hours - Fall 2024

R/Shiny Applications for Learning Statistical Concepts

Java Applets for Learning Statistical Concepts

Instructional Modules for Using Excel in Statistical Calculations - under Revision. Some may not work; B. Dudek

Companion Web Sites for Statistics Textbooks

Statistics Humor

Tutors at UA

University at Albany Psychology Department Statistics Courses Support Page