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Welcome to Psychology 830!
Recitation: Friday 3:00-3:50 in Dey 206
Office Hours: Mondays 10:00-11:30 & Wednesdays 1:00-2:00, in Davie
339
My E-mail Address: dserrano@email.unc.edu
The lab serves as a complement to the lecture. We will mainly deal
with computing related issues and your homework problems during lab sessions,
although if you have questions about material presented in the lecture please
feel free to ask me. Each week in recitation I will demonstrate how to
perform data analysis in each of these programs. The code for these
techniques will be posted on this page (hopefully, by Thursday night so you
can print it out for class), along with useful explanations about the code.
As to the computing required in this class, we recommend these three
programs: SAS, SPSS, and R. You may use any one of these programs to
complete your homework assignment. Note that you may not have to
type in the data for your assignment, the dataset comes with the CD in the
back of the textbook. Come see me if the book you bought does not have
the CD in it.
- UNC students: SAS and
SPSS are available in the computer labs in Davie Hall; talk to Hugh
Merriwether or Walt Bowen in Davie
359 if you would like to load it on your own computer. SAS is also
available through ATN software
acquisition for free (you have to trade them several blank CDRs for
the SAS disks). You can also obtain SPSS from software
acquisition, and it costs about $30 initially, and it requires annual
license renewal ($20). R is an open-source implementation of the S
language that can be downloaded for free from this site.
Spector, Paul E. (2001). SAS Programming for Researchers and Social
Scientists.
Delwiche, Lora D. (1998). The Little SAS Book.
DiIorio, Frank C. (1991). SAS Applications Programming: A Gentle
Introduction.
Hatcher, Larry and Stepanski, Edward J. (1994). A Step-by-Step Approach to
Using the SAS System for Univariate and Multivariate Statistics.
Cody, Ronald P. & Smith, Jeffrey K. (1997). Applied Statistics and the
SAS Programming Language. 4th Ed.
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