Statistics For Psychology is a short version of a textbook designed to simplify statistics. It is referred to as a work book written for students that are required to understand that a scientist must have a tightly controlled research design before they analyze their data which is conveyed in Chapters 1-2. Chapters 3-7 the authors discuss correlations, t-tests and a One-way ANOVA between subjects’design and how to input data into SPSS. By the last chapter students should understand what statistical analysis they should utilize based on their research protocol.
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Chapter 1: The importance of Understanding How Research Design and Statistics Work Together
Chapter 2: Factors to Consider When Creating Well-Designed Studies
Chapter 3: How to Summarize Data
Chapter 4: Hypothesis Testing and Inferential Statistics
Chapter 5: Correlation
Chapter 6: Inferential Statistics
Chapter 7: One-Way Analysis of Variance
Chapter 8: Using the right Statistical Tool? (Chap 18 Jaccard)
Appendix A: Statistical Tables
Appendix B: Review of Basic Arithmetic
Appendix C: Summary of Statistical Formulas Used in this Text
Appendix D: Answers to Selected Exercises
Glossary
Index
References
Kim A.
Roberts
Kim A. Roberts received her Master’s degree & PhD at Washington State University and has been Teaching at California State University, Sacramento for 25 years.
This book is dedicated to her students (past & present) at CSUS enrolled in a statistics course & to her Daughter Juliane the artist who has many talents & to my husband John!