Behavioral Science Statistics
Edition: 5
Copyright: 2023
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Behavioral Science Statistics is a textbook appropriate for introductory level statistics courses. It is written in an easy to understand style yet it thoroughly explains statistical concepts. The book contains numerous practical examples as well as step by step instructions on how to perform each statistical analysis. There are practice problems at the end of each chapter for readers to hone their newly acquired skills. The textbook author, Dr. PJ Verrecchia, has been teaching statistics since 2000 for numerous college majors including Criminal Justice, Behavioral Sciences, Nursing, and Psychology. Behavioral Science Statistics is a textbook that crosses disciplines and is useful in any number of statistics classes.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Statistics
Chapter 2: Understanding the Data: Variables and Levels of Measurement
Chapter 3: Frequency Distributions and Graphs
Chapter 4: Measures of Central Tendency
Chapter 5: Measures of Variability
Chapter 6: Z-Scores and the Normal Distribution
Chapter 7: Correlation
Chapter 8: Linear Regression
Chapter 9: Probability
Chapter 10: Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 11: The One Sample t-Test
Chapter 12: The Independent Samples t-Test
Chapter 13: The Related Samples t-Test
Chapter 14: The One-Way Analysis of Variance Manage
Chapter 15:The Chi-Square Test
Chapter 16: Nonparemetric Tests for Ordinal Level Data Manage
Appendix A
Appendix B
PJ Verrecchia, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice York College of Pennsylvania. He has been teaching statistics at the college level since 2000 for many different majors, including Criminal Justice, Psychology, Nursing, and Behavioral Sciences. This book is written in a clear style and is designed to help readers understand basic statistical concepts, as well as the calculations necessary to solve problems.