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B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY
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(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)
SYLLABUS
Semester III - Allied III - Descriptive Statisitics for Psychology
Chapter I:
Introduction - Meaning of statistics, Need and Importance of Statistics in psychology & Education, Scales of measurement - nominal, ordinal, Interval & Ratio; Organization of data - Statistical tables, Frequency Distribution.
Chapter II:
Graphical Representation of ungrouped data - Bar diagram. Pie Diagram, line graph; Graphical representation of grouped data - Frequency polygon, histogram, cumulative frequency graph and O give; computing percentiles & percentile ranks graphically
Chapter III:
Measures of Central Tendency - Mean, Median & Mode; Mean from combined samples; When to use the mean, median & mode. Chapter IV Measures of Variability - Range, Quartile deviation, Average Deviation & Standard deviation; coefficient of variation
Chapter V:
Correlation - Meaning & Types; correlation& causation; coefficient of correlation and its interpretation; Rank difference method and Product Moment method (computation in ungrouped data)
REFERENCE
Mangal.S.K. (1987): Statistics in Psychology Tata Mc Graw Hill Publishing Co,
Extra reading:
Garrett, Henry E.(1981): Statistics in Psychology & Education, Vakils, Feffer & Simons Ltd
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