Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology

✍ Scribed by Albert K. Kurtz Ph.D., Samuel T. Mayo Ph.D. (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 551
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is intended for use in the elementary statistics course in Educa­ tion or in Psychology. While it is primarily designed for use in the first semester of a two-semester course, it may also be used in a one-semester course. There are not five or ten competing texts; the number is much closer to fifty or a hundred. Why, then, should we write still another one? A new statistics text for use in Education and Psychology is, to some slight extent, comparable to a new translation or edition of the Bible. Most of it has been said before-but this time with a difference. The present writers realize that elementary statistics students know very little about the subject-even the meaning of I is all Greek to them. This text covers the basic course in depth, with examples using real data from the real world. It, of course, contains the usual reference tables and several new ones; it gives the appropriate formulas every time; and it accurately depicts all graphs. It is so comprehensive that if instructors can't find their own special areas of interest covered, then those interests probably don't belong in a basic text.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Nature of Statistical Methods....Pages 1-13
Averages....Pages 14-45
The Standard Deviation....Pages 46-81
Normal Probability Curve....Pages 82-114
Statistical Inference....Pages 115-144
Percentiles and Percentile Ranks....Pages 145-163
Skewness and Transformed Scores....Pages 164-191
Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation....Pages 192-277
Regression Equations....Pages 278-310
More Measures of Correlation....Pages 311-361
Chi Square....Pages 362-391
Nonparametric Statistics Other than Chi Square....Pages 392-407
Simple Analysis of Variance....Pages 408-431
Standard Errors of Differences....Pages 432-446
Reorientation....Pages 447-455
Back Matter....Pages 457-540

✦ Subjects

Education (general); Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Statistical Theory and Methods