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Summary
Summary
This Seventh Edition explains in plain English the basic concepts and procedures of statistical analysis and makes a special effort to clarify such topics as the standard deviation, variance interpretation of the correlation coefficient, hypothesis tests, degrees of freedom, p-values, and estimates of effect size.
* Highly interesting and engaging exercises include how standard scores might explain the disappearance of .400 hitters in Major League Baseball, probability calculations that recreate the chillingly high likelihood of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and a chi-square test of the survival rates of cabin and steerage passengers aboard the Titanic.
* Avoids unnecessary math, computational busy work, and subtle technical distinctions, without sacrificing either accuracy or realism.
* Each chapter begins with an overview and ends with a summary, a list of important terms, and numerous exercises.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Introduction |
| Part I Descriptive Statistics: Organizing and Summarizing Data |
| Describing Data with Tables: Frequency Distribution for Quantitative Data |
| Describing Data with Graphs: Graphs for Quantitative Data |
| Describing Data with Averages: Averages for Quantitative Data |
| Describing Variability: Quantitative Measures of Variability |
| Normal Distributions |
| (I) Basics Normal Distributions |
| (II) Applications Finding Proportions |
| More About z Scores |
| Describing Relationships: Correlation |
| Regression |
| More About Correlation and Regression |
| Part II Inferential Statistics: Generalizing Beyoind Data |
| Populations and Samples |
| Probability |
| Sampling Distribution of the Mean, Introduction to Hypothesis Testing : the z Test |
| More About Hypothesis Testing |
| Controlling Type I and Type II Errors |
| Estimation |
| Test for One Sample |
| t Test for Two Independent Samples |
| t Test for Two Related Samples (Repeated Measures) |
| Beyond Hypothesis Test: p-Values and Effect Size |
| Analysis of Variance (One Facotry) |
| Beyond the F Test |
| Analysis of Variance (Repeated Measures) |
| Analysis of Variance (Two Factors) |
| Chi-Square (X2) Test for Qualitative Data |
| Tests for Ranked Data |
| Postscript: Which Test? |
| Appendix A Math Review |
| Appendix B Levels of Measurement |
| Appendix C Answers to Selected Exercises |
| Appendix D |
| Appendix E |
| Appendix F |
| Index |
