Research Methods in Psychology is a standard required course in pretty much any psychology major. In our department at SUNY New Paltz, this is a four-credit class with a large laboratory component.

A variable is an event, idea, value or some other object or category that a researcher or business can measure. Variables can be dependent or independent. Dependent variables vary by the factors that ...

Classifying a variable as a particular type of data is important when considering how to present the data. Data can be presented in a number of ways, which depends on the type of variable and the uses ...

Linear regression is a powerful and long-established statistical tool that is commonly used across applied sciences, economics and many other fields. Linear regression considers the relationship ...

In recent columns we showed how linear regression can be used to predict a continuous dependent variable given other independent variables 1,2. When the dependent variable is categorical, a common ...