Summary
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This 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 the use of particular tests in the research context beyond simple recipe following.
Putting Statistics into Perspective
Putting Statistics into Perspective
Measurement, Data, and Statistics
The chapter ‘looks backward’ (and perhaps sideways as well) over what we have covered and how it fits into the research enterprise and the accumulation of psychological knowledge. It is an attempt to provide materials out of which you can construct your own overview about what we do when we manipulate data, summarize it, and test various models against our findings and each other's interpretations. Whether you end up doing research or utilizing its findings, you will need an overview to avoid getting lost in ...
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