An Introduction to Psychological Statistics

✍ Scribed by Garett C. Foster, David Lane, David Scott, Mikki Hebl, Rudy Guerra

• Publisher: University of Missouri
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"We are constantly bombarded by information, and finding a way to filter that information in an objective way is crucial to surviving this onslaught with your sanity intact. This is what statistics, and logic we use in it, enables us to do. Through the lens of statistics, we learn to find the signal hidden in the noise when it is there and to know when an apparent trend or pattern is really just randomness. The study of statistics involves math and relies upon calculations of numbers. But it also relies heavily on how the numbers are chosen and how the statistics are interpreted."

✦ Table of Contents

Prologue: A letter to my students
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Describing Data using Distributions and Graphs
Chapter 3: Measures of Central Tendency and Spread
Chapter 4: z-score and the Standard Normal Distribution
Chapter 5: Probability
Chapter 6: Sampling Distributions
Chapter 7: Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 8: Introduction to t-tests
Chapter 9: Repeated Measures
Chapter 10: Independent Samples
Chapter 11: Analysis of Variance
Chapter 12: Correlations
Chapter 13: Linear Regression
Chapter 14: Chi-square
Epilogue: A Brave New World

✦ Subjects

statistics, psychology, introduction, textbook