Final Exam, Statistics for Aphasiologists
1st quarter, Docent: Nerbonne 
 
TOPICS                              

z-tests, confidence intervals, significance tests,
t-tests, chi-square, ANOVA, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney,
Kruskal-Wallis

FORMULAS, etc. that you need to know

    average, standard deviation, 
    conversion to standard scores, 
    standard error voor samples over n elements
    use of tables for z, t, F, X^2, Wilcoxon

DIAGRAMS

histograms, box-n-whisker diagrams, normal-quantile
plots, logarithmic graphs, density curves


CONCEPTS

confidence intervals, error margins, critical points, p-values,
significance tests, null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, one-
vs. two-sided hypotheses, statistical significance (at level alpha),
z-test, sample size, errors of the first and second sort

t-tests, degrees of freedom, t-test for independent samples,
t-tests for paired data, robustness

chi-square (X^2), degrees of freedom, expected cell values in tables,
X^2 test of independence, X^2 test of "goodness of fit"

F-distribution (and degrees of freedom), single ANOVA

proportions, standard error of binomial 

Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon, Sign test.


FOR ALL TESTS: PAY ATTENTION TO THE GUIDELINES FOR PRACTICAL USE

When is which test to be used?