Elementary Statistics » (5th Edition)

This application-oriented guide hands you simple-to-usemathematical techniques fordetermining various statistics inpsychology and the behavioral sciences. Progressing from basicdescriptive statistics to inferential paramedic statistics, thehandbook includes graphic presentations including stem and leafdisplays ... step-by-step procedures for performing computations... advice for selecting the appropriate statistical test forspecific studies ... coverage of various statistical computerprograms ... and more. Intended for professionals with little orno knowledge of statistics.

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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.