Cengage Advantage Books: Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

by Heiman, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780495909941
• ISBN10: 0495909947
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

BASIC STATISTICS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES demystifies and fully explains statistics without leaving out relevant topics or simply presenting formulas, in a format that is non-threatening and inviting to users. The author's clear, patiently crafted explanations, with an occasional touch of humor, teach users not only how to compute an answer, but also why they should perform the procedure or what their answer reveals about the data. The book achieves several objectives: it presents a conceptual-intuitive approach, presents statistics within an understandable research context, deals directly and positively with user weaknesses in mathematics, and introduces new terms and concepts in an integrated way. The result is a book that users can learn from as well as enjoy.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Statistics

Statistics and the Research Process

Frequency Distributions and Percentiles

Measures of Central Tendency; the Mean, Median, and Mode

Measures of Variability: Range, Variance, and Standard Deviation

z-Scores and the Normal Curve Model

The Correlation Coefficient

Linear Regression

Using Probability to Make Decisions about Data

Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

Performing the One-Sample t-Test and Testing Correlation Coefficients

The Two-Sample t-Test

The One-Way Analysis of Variance

The Two-Way Analysis of Variance

Chi Square and Other Nonparametric Procedures

Appendices

Additional Statistical Formulas

Using SPSS

Statistical Tables

Answers to Odd-Numbered Questions

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