Description
Book SynopsisPraise for the first edition: "An excellent textbook which is well planned, well written, and pitched at the correct level for psychology students. I would not hesitate to recommend Greene and d'Oliveira to all psychology students looking for an introductory text on statistical methodology."
Bulletin of the British Psychological Society
Learning to Use Statistical Tests in Psychology third edition has been updated throughout. It continues to be a key text in helping students to understand and conduct statistical tests in psychology without panic! It takes students from the most basic elements of statistics teaching them:
- How psychologists plan experiments and statistical tests
- Which considerations must be made when planning experiments
- How to analyze and comprehend test results
Like the previous editions, this book provides students with a step-by-step guide to the simplest non-parametric tests through to more complex ana
Table of ContentsPreface to the third edition
Study guide for students
Acknowledgements
Part I Introduction
1Research in psychology
2Experiments in psychology
3Selecting statistical tests
4Using statistical tests
Part II Statistical tests for experiments
5Introduction to non-parametric tests
6Wilcoxin test (related)
7Mann-Whitney test (unrelated)
8Introduction to parametric t tests
9t test (related)
10t test (unrelated)
11Friedman test (related)
12Kruskal-Wallis (unrelated)
Part III Analysis of Variance
13Introduction to ANOVA
14One-way ANOVA (unrelated)
15One-way ANOVA (related)
16Comparisons between ANOVA conditions
17Introduction to two-way ANOVA
18Two-way ANOVA (unrelated)
19Two-way ANOVA (related)
Part IV Relationships between variables
20Chi square
21Pearson product moment correlation
22Introduction to simple linear regression
23Multiple regression
24General Linear Model
Answers to questions
Recommended reading
References
Statistical tables
Decision Chart: inside back cover
