Checked and rechecked for accuracy and stressing application to concrete data rather than mathematic theory,
this highly successful book covers statistical techniques used in psychological and behavioral sciences, and provides
a comprehensive study of the basic principles that underlie them. Requiring no extensive mathematical background,
the text progresses from basic descriptive statistics to inferential paramedic statistics including two-way classification
analysis of variance and nonparametric techniques.
Extends discussions of graphic presentations--including stem and leaf displays.
Presents a step-by-step procedures section in most chapters, and describes how to use various levels of calculators
in carrying out the computations.
Includes a new appendix which introduces readers to different kinds of computers and computer programs.
Adds on a chapter presenting a decision tree that shows readers how to select an appropriate statistical test
for specific research studies.
Provides a glossary in each chapter that defines important terms.
Supplies problems in each chapter, with answers provided in an appendix.
Table of Contents
1. Statistics: What It's About.
2. Frequency Distributions.
3. Graphic Representations.
4. Measures of Central Tendency.
5. Variability.
6. Probability.
7. The Binomial and the Normal Distributions.
8. Sampling Distributions: Single Samples.
9. Sampling Distributions: Independent Samples from Two Populations.
10. Correlation.
11. Sampling Distributions: Matched Pairs.
12. One-Way Analysis of Variance.
13. Two-Way Analysis of Variance.
14. Chi Square.
15. Nonparametric Tests.
16. Determination of the Appropriate Statistical Test.
Appendix I: The Use of Computers in Statistical Analysis.
Appendix II: List of Formulas.
Appendix III: Tables.
Appendix IV: Answers to Chapter Problems.
