Statistics in plain English /
In this brief, simple overview of statistics each chapter describes the statistic, including how it is used and what information it provides. It reviews how it works, how to calculate the formula, the strengths and weaknesses of the technique, and the conditions needed for its use and, lastly, provi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Mahwah, N.J. :
Lawrence Erlbaum Association,
2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 1410612813 9781410612816 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to social science research and terminology
- Measures of central tendency
- Measures of variability
- The normal distribution
- Standardization and z scores
- Standard errors
- Statistical significance, effect size, and confidence intervals
- Correlation
- t tests
- One-way analysis of variance
- Factorial analysis of variance
- Repeated-measures analysis of variance
- Regression
- The Chi-square test of independence
- Appendix A: Area under the normal curve between u and z and beyond z
- Appendix B: The t distribution
- Appendix C: The F distribution
- Appendix D: Critical values of the studentized range statistic (for the Tukey HSD Test)
- Appendix E: Critical values for the Chi-square distribution.