Making Sense of Data and Statistics in Psychology

Making Sense of Data and Statistics in Psychology confronts the pedagogic challenge of teaching statistics to students in psychology and related disciplines. Recognising the heterogeneous nature of students' mathematical backgrounds and motivations, the authors adopt an innovative approach while ensuring ready integration into orthodox undergraduate statistics courses at introductory and post-introductory levels. Before being introduced to formal statistics, students are encouraged to develop a 'feel' for data, particularly through visual representation. Making extensive use of exploratory data analysis (EDA), the text emphasises conceptual rather than technical or procedural understanding.

List of contents

Statistics in Psychology
Variables
Describing and Summarising Data
Seeing Patterns in Data: Comparing
Seeing Patterns in Data: Correlating
The Relevance of Probability
Statistical Tests: Comparing
Statistical Tests: Correlating
Experimentation in Psychology
Seeing Patterns in Data: Comparing More Than Two Groups
Statistical Tests: Comparing More Than Two Groups
Seeing Patterns in Data: Comparisons Involving More than One Independent Variable
Statistical Tests: Comparing More than One Independent Variable
Relating: Multiple Variables
Overview
Index

Product details

• Authors: Bria Greer, Brian Greer, Gerry Mulhern
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780333629680
• ISBN: 978-0-333-62968-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 20 mm x 254 mm
• Weight: 739 g
• Illustrations: Literaturverz.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Basic principles; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General