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"Now in its 4th edition, this popular and comprehensive graduate-level statistics text offers students an easy to grasp and non-intimidating approach to statistics for the non-mathematician. The text provides practical coverage of SPSS in every chapter, including screen shots, procedures, exercises, and direction on how to interpret SPSS output. The use of common data sets throughout the book aid in student comprehension. Now with a new chapter showing students how to apply the right test in the right way to come out with the most accurate and true result, the new edition continues to offer students a lively and engaging introduction to the field"--
List of contents
Preface to the Third Edition xxv
Acknowledgments xxxi
Part One Descriptive Statistics 1
Chapter 1 Introduction To Psychological Statistics 1
Chapter 2 Frequency Tables, Graphs, And Distributions 21
Chapter 3 Measures Of Central Tendency And Variability 46
Chapter 4 Standardized Scores And The Normal Distribution 87
Part Two One- and Two-Sample Hypothesis Tests 123
Chapter 5 Introduction to Hypothesis Testing: The One-Sample z Test 123
Chapter 6 Interval Estimation and the t Distribution 156
Chapter 7 The t Test for Two Independent Sample Means 188
Chapter 8 Statistical Power and Effect Size 222
Part Three Hypothesis Tests Involving Two Measures on Each Subject 255
Chapter 9 Linear Correlation 255
Chapter 10 Linear Regression 286
Chapter 11 The Matched t Test 317
Part Four Analysis of Variance without Repeated Measures 342
Chapter 12 One-Way Independent ANOVA 342
Chapter 13 Multiple Comparisons 386
Chapter 14 Two-Way ANOVA 425
Part Five Analysis of Variance with Repeated Measures 487
Chapter 15 Repeated Measures ANOVA 487
Chapter 16 Two-Way Mixed Design ANOVA 528
Part Six Multiple Regression and Its Connection to ANOVA 571
Chapter 17 Multiple Regression 571
Chapter 18 The Regression Approach to ANOVA 627
Part Seven Nonparametric Statistics 677
Chapter 19 The Binomial Distribution 677
Chapter 20 Chi-Square Tests 700
Appendix A Statistical Tables 757
Appendix B Answers To Selected Exercises 777
References 799
Index 807
