| Description |
xxi, 756 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Organizing and graphing data -- Describing distributions : individual scores, central tendency, and variation -- The normal distribution -- Correlation : a measure of relationship -- Linear regression : prediction -- Sampling, probability, and sampling distributions -- Hypothesis testing : one-sample case for the mean -- Estimation : one-sample case for the mean -- Hypothesis testing : one-sample case for other statistics -- Hypothesis testing : two-sample case for the mean -- Hypothesis testing : two-sample case for other statistics -- Determining power and sample size -- Hypothesis testing, K-sample case : analysis of variance, one-way classification -- Multiple-comparison procedures -- Analysis of variance, two-way classification -- Linear regression : estimation and hypothesis testing -- Multiple linear regression -- Analysis of covariance -- Other correlation coefficients -- Chi-square (X²) tests for frequencies -- Other nonparametric tests -- Appendix A. Data sets and computer exercises -- Appendix B. Computational examples -- Appendix C. Tables -- Appendix D. Answers to exercises -- Appendix E. Glossary |
| Summary |
Written for students studying in a variety of social science areas, not solely the psychology student, this book is designed to give each student a conceptual understanding of the basic statistical procedures used in behavioral sciences |
| Notes |
Previous edition: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998 |
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Tables on end papers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 742-745) and index |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Statistical methods.
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Statistics.
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| Author |
Jurs, Stephen G., author
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Wiersma, William, author
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| LC no. |
2001131503 |
| ISBN |
0495808857 |
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0618124055 (hardback) |
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9780495808855 |
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9780618124053 (hardback) |
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