Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: A Brief Course

✍ Scribed by Aron, Arthur

• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 491
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For one-quarter/semester courses that focus on the basics in statistics or combine statistics with research methods. The fifth edition of Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences builds off an already well-established approach - emphasizing the intuitive, deemphasizing the mathematical, and explaining everything in direct, simple language - but also goes beyond these principles to further student understanding. By using definitional formulas to emphasize the concepts of statistics, rather than rote memorization, students work problems in a way that keeps them constantly aware of the underlying logic of what they are doing.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
C......Page 6
F......Page 7
N......Page 8
S......Page 9
V......Page 10
Z......Page 11
Glossary of Symbols......Page 12
1. Displaying the Order in a Group of Numbers Using Tables and Graphs......Page 14
2. The Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, and z Scores......Page 44
3. Correlation and Prediction......Page 80
4. Some Key Ingredients for Inferential Statistics: The Normal Curve, Sample versus Population, and Probability......Page 140
5. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing......Page 168
6. Hypothesis Tests with Means of Samples......Page 198
7. Making Sense of Statistical Significance: Effect Size and Statistical Power......Page 230
8. Introduction to the t Test: Single Sample and Dependent Means......Page 264
9. The t Test for Independent Means......Page 310
10. Introduction to the Analysis of Variance......Page 350
11. Chi-Square Tests and Strategies When Population Distributions Are Not Normal......Page 406
12. Applying Statistical Methods in Your Own Research Project......Page 466
References......Page 480
C......Page 486
G......Page 487
N......Page 488
S......Page 489
W......Page 490
Y......Page 491

✦ Subjects

Psychology;Academic