This textbook provides a first course in data analysis for students majoring in the social and behavioral sciences. The book is intended to be comprehensible to students who are not planning to go on to postgraduate study. Even the active researcher may find the book a useful resource.
Statistics for the behavioural and social sciences.
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- Publisher
- Pearson
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 491
- Edition
- 5th ed.
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Displaying the Order in a Group of Numbers Using Tables and Graphs Chapter 2 - The Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, and Z Scores Chapter 3 - Correlation and Prediction Chapter 4 - Some Key Ingredients for Inferential Statistics: The Normal Curve, Sample Versus Population, and Probability Chapter 5 - Introduction to Hypothesis Testing Chapter 6 - Hypothesis Tests with Means of Samples Chapter 7 - Making Sense of Statistical Significance: Effect Size and Statistical Power Chapter 8 - Introduction to the t Test: Single Sample and Dependent Means Chapter 9 - The t Test for Independent Means Chapter 10 - Introduction to the Analysis of Variance Chapter 11- Chi-Square Tests and Strategies When Population Distributions Are Not Normal Chapter 12 - Applying Statistical Methods in Your Own Research Project
โฆ Subjects
Social sciences -- Statistical methods;Social sciences -- Data processing
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