Statistics Explained: A Guide for Social Science Students, 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Perry Hinton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Statistics Explained clearly outlines the major statistical tests used by undergraduates in the social sciences. It provides easy-to-understand explanations of how and why they are used and makes statistics much less mysterious. This book: Is a simple introduction to the jargon Shows you when to be sceptical about statistics Guides you in using computers in statistical analysis. Statistics Explained can be dipped into so that readers can see why a specific analytical procedure was developed and what it is best used for. Readers can also analyse their own data by following the worked examples provided. People who understand statistics are not unusual. Anyone can do it. In this book, Perry Hinton shows that statistics can be a logical and helpful tool to all of us in deciding answers to our research questions. Statistics Explained will be warmly welcomed by students at all levels, and by the lecturers who struggle to teach them.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
C h a p t e r
1 Introduction......Page 22
C h a p t e r 2 Descriptive S
tatistics......Page 26
C h a p t e r 3 Standard S
cores......Page 46
C h a p t e r 4 Introduction to Hypothesis T
esting......Page 56
C h a p t e r 5 Sampling
......Page 68
C h a p t e r 6 Hypothesis Testing with One Sample......Page 80
C h a p t e r 7 Selecting Samples for Comparison......Page 94
C h a p t e r 8 Hypothesis Testing with Two Samples......Page 102
C h a p t e r 9 Significance,Error, and Power......Page 116
C h a p t e r 1 0 Introduction to the Analysis of Variance......Page 132
C h a p t e r 11 One Factor Independent Measures ANOVA......Page 146
C h a p t e r 12 Multiple Comparisons......Page 158
C h a p t e r 13 One Factor Repeated Measures ANOVA......Page 170
C h a p t e r 14 The Interaction of Factors in the Analysis of Variance......Page 182
C h a p t e r 15 Calculating the Two Factor ANOVA......Page 192
C h a p t e r 16 An Introductionto Nonparametric Analysis......Page 228
C h a p t e r 17 Two Sample Nonparametric Analysis......Page 236
C h a p t e r 18 One Factor ANOVA for Ranked Data......Page 252
C h a p t e r 19 Analysing Frequency Data: Chi-Square......Page 268
C h a p t e r 20 Linear Correlation and Regression......Page 282
C h a p t e r 21 Multiple Correlation and Regression......Page 304
C h a p t e r 22 Complex Analyses and Computers......Page 316
C h a p t e r 23 An Introduction to the General Linear Model......Page 336
Notes......Page 364
Glossary......Page 368
References......Page 378
Appendix......Page 380
Index......Page 396