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Informationen zum Autor Jerome Frieman earned his PhD from Kent State University in Ohio. He has been at Kansas State University since 1968. Over the course of his career, he engaged in research on operant conditioning in pigeons, rats, and dwarf hamsters; Pavlovian conditioning in rats; social learning in dwarf hamsters; and extraordinary memory in a human participant. He is the author of Learning and Adaptive Behavior and co-author of Memory Search by a Memorist . Klappentext Using real research on antisocial behaviours such as cyberbullying, prejudice and discrimination, this text helps readers across the social sciences to understand the underlying theory behind statistical methods. Zusammenfassung Using real research on antisocial behaviours such as cyberbullying! prejudice and discrimination! this text helps readers across the social sciences to understand the underlying theory behind statistical methods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface About the Authors Prologue PART I ¿ GETTING STARTED Chapter 1: The Big Picture Models The Classical Statistical Model Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data Summary Questions Raised by the Use of the Classical Statistical Model Conceptual Exercises Chapter 2: Examining Our Data: An Introduction to Some of the Techniques of Exploratory Data Analysis Descriptive Statistics Histograms Exploratory Data Analysis Quantile Plots Stem-and-Leaf Displays Letter-Value Displays Box Plots Did My Data Come From a Normal Distribution? Why Should We Care About Looking at Our Data? Summary Conceptual Exercises PART II ¿ THE BEHAVIOR OF DATA Chapter 3: Properties of Distributions: The Building Blocks of Statistical Inference The Effects of Adding a Constant or Multiplying by a Constant The Standard Score Transformation The Effects of Adding or Subtracting Scores From Two Different Distributions The Distribution of Sample Means The Central Limit Theorem Averaging Means and Variances Expected Value Theorems on Expected Value Summary Conceptual Exercises PART III ¿ THE BASICS OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE: DRAWING CONCLUSIONS FROM OUR DATA Chapter 4: Estimating Parameters of Populations From Sample Data Statistical Inference With the Classical Statistical Model Criteria for Selecting Estimators of Population Parameters Maximum Likelihood Estimation Confidence Intervals Beyond Normal Distributions and Estimating Population Means Summary Conceptual Exercises Chapter 5: Resistant Estimators of Parameters A Closer Look at Sampling From Non-Normal Populations The Sample Mean and Sample Median Are L-Estimators Measuring the Influence of Outliers on Estimates of Location and Spread ?-Trimmed Means as Resistant and Efficient Estimators of Location Winsorizing: Another Way to Create a Resistant Estimator of Location Applying These Resistant Estimators to Our Data Resistant Estimators of Spread Applying These Resistant Estimators to Our Data (Part 2) M-Estimators: Another Approach to Finding Resistant Estimators of Location Which Estimator of Location Should I Use? Resampling Methods for Constructing Confidence Intervals A Final Caveat Summary Conceptual Exercises Chapter 6: General Principles of Hypothesis Testing Experimental and Statistical Hypotheses Estimating Parameters The Criterion for Evaluating Our Statistical Hypotheses Creating Our Test Statistic Drawing Conclusions About Our Null Hypothesis But Suppose H0 Is False? Errors in Hypothesis Testing Power and Power Functions The Use of Power Functions p-Values, a, and Alpha (Type I) Errors: What They Do and Do Not Mean A Word of Caution About Attempting to ...
