Preface

These course materials were used during academic year 2020/2021. The materials will stay online for the foreseeable future, but will no longer be updated. A new course website will be created for academic year 2021/2022.

Important notes

This is a free textbook for the course “Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis” at EUC. This textbook was adapted from “Answering questions with data” by Mattew J.C. Crump and “Learning statistics with R” by Danielle Navarro and extended with our own materials.

The original text is part of a larger OER (Open Educational Resource) course for teaching undergraduate statistics in psychology. As such, the text assumes you are a psychology student and many of the examples are drawn from the field of psychology. This does not mean that this course is only useful for you if you have an interest in psychology. The field of psychology will serve as a vehicle to teach you important concepts and skills in quantitative research methods and data analysis, but the concepts and skills taught are universal.

This textbook is accompanied by the lab manual found here.

Attributions

This textbook was adapted from Crump, M. J. C., Navarro, D., & Suzuki, J. (2019, June 5). Answering Questions with Data (Textbook): Introductory Statistics for Psychology Students. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JZE52

Several chapters were adapted from Danielle Navarro’s wonderful free textbook. The citation for that textbook is: Navarro, D. (2018). Learning statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners (version 0.6). The website is https://learningstatisticswithr.com

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