Description
Book SynopsisThis textbook offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to statistics for all undergraduate psychology students, but particularly those in their second and third years who have already covered an initial introductory course. It covers all of the key areas in quantitative methods including sampling, significance tests, regression, and multivariate techniques and incorporates a range of exercises and problems at the end of each chapter for the student to follow.
The free CD-ROM with tutorial modules complements and enhances the exercises in the text, offers scope for distance learning, and makes both the traditional and non-traditional approaches much more accessible.
Key points of the book are: an emphasis on measurement, data summaries and graphs; a clear explanation of statistical inference using sampling distributions and confidence intervals, making significance tests much easier to understand; and help for students to understand and judge
Table of Contents
Uncertainty and Psychological Research Variables and Measurement Exploring, Describing, Displaying and Summarizing Research Design and Probability Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals Statistical Models and Significance Tests Predicting a Quantitative Variable from a Categorical Variable The t Test and Analysis of Variance Quantitative Predictors Regression and Correlation Predicting Categorical Variables Contingency Tables and Chi-Square More Than Two Variables A Peek at Multivariate Analysis Putting Statistics into Perspective
