Title:
Statistical methods in education and psychology
Personal Author:
Edition:
3rd ed.
Publication Information:
Boston, US : Allyn & Bacon, 1996
Physical Description:
1 CD-ROM ; 12 cm.
ISBN:
9780205673537
General Note:
Accompanies text of the same title : LB2846 .G52 1996
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Summary
Summary
The approach of SMEP-III is conceptual rather than mathematical. The authors stress the understanding, applications, and interpretation of concepts rather than derivation and proof or hand-computation.
Table of Contents
| Each chapter begins with "Introduction" and concludes with "Case Study," "Chapter Summary," "Suggested Computer Activities," "Mastery Test Answers to Mastery Test," and "Problems and Exercises." |
| Preface |
| 1 Introduction |
| The "Image" of Statistics |
| Descriptive Statistics |
| Inferential Statistics |
| Statistics and Mathematics |
| Case Method |
| Our Targets |
| 2 Measurement, Variables, and Scales |
| Variables and their Measurement |
| Measurement: The Observation of Variables |
| Measurement Scales |
| Nominal Measurement |
| Ordinal Measurement |
| Interval Measurement |
| Ratio Measurement |
| Interrelationships among Measurement Scales |
| Continuous and Discrete Variables |
| 3 Frequency Distributions and Visual Displays of Data |
| Tabulating Data |
| Grouped Frequency Distributions |
| Grouping and Loss of Information |
| Graphing a Frequency Distribution: The Histogram |
| Frequency and Percentage Polygons |
| Type of Distribution |
| Cumulative Distributions and the Ogive Curve |
| Percentiles |
| Box-and-Whisker Plots |
| Stem-and-Leaf Displays |
| Time-Series Graphs |
| Misleading Graphs |
| How to Lie with Statistics |
| 4 Measures of Central Tendency |
| The Mode |
| The Median |
| Summation Notation |
| The Mean |
