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Explaining psychological statistics
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Edition:
3rd ed
Publication Information:
New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2008
Physical Description:
825 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9780470007181

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Summary

This comprehensive graduate-level statistics text is aimed at students with a minimal background in the area or those who are wary of the subject matter. The new edition of this successful text will continue to offer students a lively and engaging introduction to the field, provide comprehensive coverage of the material, and will also include examples and exercises using common statistical software packages (SPSS).


Author Notes

Barry H. Cohen, PhD, is the director of the master's program in psychology at New York University, where he has been teaching statistics for more than twenty years. He is the coauthor of two other successful statistics books from Wiley: Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Sixth Edition and Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Part 1 Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 1 Introduction to Psychological Statistics
Chapter 2 Frequency Tables, Graphs, and Distributions
Chapter 3 Measures of Central tendency and Variability
Chapter 4 Standardized Scores and the Normal Distribution
Part 2 One - And Two-Sample Hypothesis Tests
Chapter 5 Introduction to Hypothesis Testing: The One-Sample z Test
Chapter 6 Interval Estimation and the t Distribution
Chapter 7 The t Test For Two Independent Sample Means
Chapter 8 Statistical Power and Effect Size
Part 3 Hypothesis Tests Involving Two Measures on Each Subject
Chapter 9 Linear Correlation
Chapter 10 Linear Regression
Chapter 11 The Matched t Test
Part 4 Analysis of Variance without Repeated Measures
Chapter 12 One-Way Independent ANOVA
Chapter 13 Multiple Comparisons
Chapter 14 Two-Way ANOVA
Part 5 Analysis of Variance with Repeated Measures
Chapter 15 Repeated Measures ANOVA
Chapter 16 TWO-WAY Mixed Design ANOVA
Part 6 Multiple Regression and Its Connection to ANOVA
Chapter 17 Multiple Regression
Chapter 18 The Regression Approach to ANOVA
Part 7 Nonparametric Statistics
Chapter 19 The Binomial Distribution
Chapter 20 Chi-Square Tests
Chapter 21 Statistical Tests for Ordinal Data
Appendix A Statistical Tables
Appendix B Answers to Selected Exercises
References
Index