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Course Schedule

BBSP 710 Fall 2025 Course Schedule*

Course Schedule* 

*Note: Syllabus subject to change

 

Week 1: (Sep 2/4)

 

Tues: Experimental Design + Intro, Pre-test, & Assignments (Prism/Power Tutorials)

  1. Course Introduction
  2. Observational Studies and Experiments
  3. Experimental Design Basic Principles
  4. Random Sampling

Thurs: Description of Data (Prism Tutorial Assignment 1 due)

  1. Types of Variables
  2. Graphical Methods for Summarizing Data (Histogram, Barplot, etc.)
  3. Summary Statistics (Mean, Median, Standard Deviation, etc.)

Relationship Between Variables

 

Week 2 (Sep 9/11):

 

Tues:  No Class

Thurs: Probability, Distributions, Confidence Intervals (Prism Tutorial Assignment 2 due)

  1. Probability
  2. Binomial and Normal Distributions
  3. Sampling Distributions
  4. Confidence Intervals for the Mean

Week 3 (Sep 16/18):

Tues: Probability, Distributions and Confidence Intervals (Prism Tutorial Assignment 3 due)

Final Project Planning Session

Thurs:  Intro to Hypothesis Testing

 Week 4 (Sept 23/25):

Tues: No Synchronous Class – Asynchronous class on performing t test in Prism

Thurs: Hypothesis Testing  PRISM Tutorial

  1. Comparison of Two Independent Samples (t Test, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test)
  2. Comparison of Paired Samples (Paired t Test, Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test)

Week 5 (Sept 30/Oct 2):

Tues: Intro to Multi-sample Inference

Multi-sample Inference (One-Way ANOVA)

  1. Hypothesis Testing in One-way ANOVA
  2. Comparing Specific Groups in One-way ANOVA
  3. Hypothesis Testing in One-way ANOVA
  4. Comparing Specific Groups in One-way ANOVA

Thurs: No Synchronous Class – Asynchronous class, one-way ANOVA in Prism.

Week 6 (Oct 7/9): 

Tues: No class, Wellness day

Thurs: Two-way ANOVA

  1. Three-Way ANOVA

Week 7 (Oct 14/16):  

Tues: Multi-sample Inference – Advanced ANOVA (Factorial ANOVA & Repeated Measures) (PRISM Assignment 4 due)

Repeated Measures ANOVA

Thurs: Fall break (no class) 

Week 8 (Oct 21/23):

Tues: Power Analysis

Thurs:  In class Power analysis of your data,  (G*Power & NQuiry Demos) + Bring Your Own       Data (BYOD) (Power Assignment 5 due)

Week 9 (Oct 28/30):

Tues: Intro to Correlation and Regression

  1. Correlation
  2. Simple linear Regression

Thurs: Non-linear Regression, Survival, Growth Curves (Example Project review)

Week 10 (Nov 4/6): (Final Project Draft due Wed)

            Tues: Special Topics Guest Lecture

 

Thurs: Special Topic Guest Lecture

Week 11 (Nov 11-13) (Draft Reviews Due Monday)

 Tues: Special Topics &Final Project Interactive Session (in-class;

Thurs: Special Topics & Final Review Instructions

Week 12 (Nov 18/20): (Wednesday Final Project due)

Tues: Class – Work on final project edits in breakout groups

Thurs: Advanced topics

  1. Analysis Flowchart

Review with Examples

Wrap-up & Course evaluations (in-class)

Week 13: (Nov 24 Reviews are due)

 No Class

 

Important Dates: (submit all assignments, drafts, & peer-reviews via Canvas)

Tutorial Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 – due 9/4, 9/11, 9/16, 10/14, 10/23 by 11 am (respectively)

Final Full Draft – due W 11/5 by 11a (automatic peer-review assignments)

Draft Reviews (2x each) – due M 11/10 by 5 pm (submit reviews)

Final Project – due W 11/19 by 11a (automatic peer-review assignments)

Final reviews (2x each) – due M 11/24 by 5 pm (submit reviews)

 

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