Frederick L. Coolidge, PhD
Professor of Psychology

Office: 4029 Columbine Hall
Phone: 262-4146
E-mail: fcoolidg@uccs.edu

Welcome to the website for PSY 210, Introduction to Psychological Statistics, at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Students enrolled in this course can expect to learn about descriptive statistics (including graphs, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, and variability) and inferential statistics such as correlation, t-tests, chi-square tests, and analysis of variance (including two-factor designs and multiple comparison tests).

My advice to students is: DON'T PANIC! If you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide using a calculator then you can do this. Despite the reputation statistics has as a challenge to anyone's sanity, statistics is merely the science that facilitates the quick and efficient understanding of groups of numbers. Statistics also enhances the conceptual understanding of number sets and provides a framework for communicating that understanding.

The buttons at the left are links to the course syllabus, solutions to the problems given at the end of each chapter in the textbook, and sample write-ups for reporting the results of analyses such as correlation, t-tests, and analysis of variance.