Fundamental statistics for the behavioral sciences

Focuses on providing the context of statistics in behavioral research, while emphasizing the importance of looking at data before jumping into a test. This title provides students with an understanding of the logic behind the statistics, so they understand why and how certain methods are used-rather...

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Main Author: Howell, David C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom, UK Wadsworth, Cencage Learning 2014
Edition:8th edition; international edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Basic concepts
  • Displaying data
  • Measures of central tendency
  • Measures of variability
  • The normal distribution
  • Basic concepts of probability
  • Sampling distributions and hypothesis testing
  • Correlation
  • Regression
  • Multiple regression
  • Hypothesis testing applied to means : one sample
  • Hypothesis tests applied to means : two related samples
  • Hypothesis tests applied to means : two independent samples
  • Power
  • One-way analysis of variance
  • Factorial analysis of variance factorial designs
  • Repeated-measures analysis of variance
  • Chi-square
  • Nonparametric and distribution-free statistical tests
  • Meta-analysis