Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. This item is unavailable.Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

A textbook presenting the basic statistical procedures used in the behavioral sciences. Presumes no prior course in statistics and only a basic knowledge of math and algebra. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

1. Introduction. 2. Organizing and Graphing Data. 3. Describing Distributions: Individual Scores, Central Tendency, and Variation. 4. The Normal Distribution. 5. Correlation: A Measure of Relationship. 6. Linear Regression: Prediction. 7. Sampling, Probability, and Sampling Distributions. 8. Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Case for the Mean. 9. Estimation: One-Sample Case for the Mean. 10. Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Case for Other Statistics. 11. Hypothesis Testing: Two-Sample Case for the Mean. 12. Hypothesis Testing: Two-Sample Case for Other Statistics. 13. Determining Power and Sample Size. 14. Hypothesis Testing, K-Sample Case: Analysis of Variance, One-Way Classification. 15. Multiple-Comparison Procedures. 16. Analysis of Variance, Two-Way Classification. 17. Linear Regression: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing. 18. Multiple Linear Regression. 19. Analysis of Covariance. 20. Other Correlation Coefficients. 21. Chi-Square (X2) Tests for Frequencies. 22. Other Nonparametric Tests. Appendix A. Data Sets and Computer Exercises. Appendix B. Computational Formulas. Appendix C. Tables. Appendix D. Answers to Exercises. Appendix E. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.