Ah yes, our textbook refers to SPSS quite a bit, however, we use a different computer software that came with our book called minitab version 14. That one also takes a while to figure out but it does come with a rather thick book only for the computer software, however, it can be confusing at times mainly because I click on a drop-down menu and see some babble and out of the babble, I find the 1 little button I need without really knowing what on earth the other stuff means.

As long as it's using pre-made computer software programs then I'm better off than having to go from scratch.

This course is a general stats course, although there also are biostats, psychstats, etc..., the general stats one was offered in the summer and it was at a nice days and times. However, many of the questions use data from published sources and such for psychology, biology and other random ones.

Right now I've been considering psychology and biology research for quite a while, probably something in neuroscience or neuropsychology but in a few years, who knows, it may be only psychology.

In our abnormal psychology course, almost all of our lectures had epidemiology in it, and a few were only epidemiology. So I'm also a bit interested in that. I'm curious about your study, I realize you may not be able to tell the details of it and I'm fine with that but I'm more curious from a statistical perspective. In our course we always assumed or showed that the data may be approx. normal distribution (also has uniform, standard normal, etc...), but for a real study, do you assume or try to show it's normal or do you go for non-normal? Basically all we got up to was calculations for 2 samples (mostly independent, a bit of dependent) for mean, sample size, variance, etc... .

But you're right, I could just take the stats courses and don't do a minor in, that is a possibility also. I'm trying to take many psych and bio courses so I figured it'd be best to do a stats course offered by the stats department so I can generalize it later to either psych or bio. I'm also quite a big fan of math so I would like it to be as much pure math as possible but also learning the various theoroms and such.