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Statistical methods for psychology

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Cengage Learning, 2010 - Psychology - 768 pages
STATISTICAL METHODS FOR PSYCHOLOGY surveys the statistical techniques commonly used in the behavioral and social sciences, especially psychology and education. This book has two underlying themes that are more or less independent of the statistical hypothesis tests that are the main content of the book. The first theme is the importance of looking at the data before formulating a hypothesis. With this in mind, the author discusses, in detail, plotting data, looking for outliers, and checking assumptions (Graphical displays are used extensively). The second theme is the importance of the relationship between the statistical test to be employed and the theoretical questions being posed by the experiment. To emphasize this relationship, the author uses real examples to help the reader understand the purpose behind the experiment and the predictions made by the theory.
  

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Contents

Basic Concepts
1
Describing and Exploring Data
15
The Normal Distribution
65
Sampling Distributions and Hypothesis Testing
85
Basic Concepts of Probability
111
Categorical Data and ChiSquare
139
Hypothesis Tests Applied to Means
179
Power
225
Factorial Analysis of Variance
413
RepeatedMeasures Designs
461
Multiple Regression
515
Analyses of Variance and Covariance as General Linear Models
579
LogLinear Analysis
629
Resampling and Nonparametric Approaches to Data
659
Appendices
691
References
725

Correlation and Regression
245
Alternative Correlational Techniques
293
Simple Analysis of Variance
317
Multiple Comparisons Among Treatment Means
363
Answers to Exercises
735
Index
757
Glossary of Symbols
769
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David C. Howell is a professor emeritus and former chair of the psychology department at the University of Vermont. Professor Howell's primary area of research is in statistics and experimental methods. He is also the author of STATISTICAL METHODS FOR PSYCHOLOGY, currently in an Eighth Edition (Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013), and the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STATISTICS IN BEHAVIOR SCIENCE (2005) with Brian Everitt. Before retiring, he frequently served as consultant with other faculty, both in the psychology department and in departments as disparate as Geology and Animal Sciences, and brings those experiences to this endeavor. Professor Howell's other interests include computing and the World Wide Web, and how technology affects communication, teaching, and research.

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