Title:
Statistics for psychology
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Edition:
5th ed.
Publication Information:
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Education, 2009
Physical Description:
xviii, 726 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9780132365024
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Summary
Summary
This text reflects current change in the research and practice of teaching statistics. The approach emphasizes the conceptual understanding of statistics and relies on computers to do most of the computational work.
Table of Contents
| 1 Displaying the order in a group of numbers |
| 2 Central tendency and variability |
| 3 Some key ingredients for inferential statistics: Z scores, the normal curve, sample versus population, and probability |
| 4 Introduction to hypothesis testing |
| 5 Hypothesis testing with means of samples |
| 6 Making sense of statistical significance: Effect size and statistical power |
| 7 Introduction to the t test: Single sample and dependent means |
| 8 The t test for independent means |
| 9 Introduction to the analysis of variance |
| 10 Factorial analysis of variance |
| 11 Correlation |
| 12 Prediction |
| 13 Chi-square tests |
| 14 Strategies when population distributions are not normal: Data transformations and rank-order tests |
| 15 Integration and the general linear model |
| 16 Making sense of advanced statistical procedures in research articles |
