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Fundamental statistics for the behavioral sciences / David C. Howell.

By: Howell, David C.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Australia : Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2014Edition: Eight Edition.Description: xvii, 649 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9781285076911; 1285076915; 9781285081809; 1285081803; 9781285076935; 1285076931.Subject(s): Social sciences -- Statistical methods | Psychometrics | Psychometrics | Psychometrics | Social sciences -- Statistical methodsDDC classification: 519.5 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
Basic concepts -- Displaying data -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of variability -- The normal distribution -- Basic concepts of probability -- Sampling distributions and hypothesis testing -- Correlation -- Regression -- Multiple regression -- Hypothesis testing applied to means : one sample -- Hypothesis tests applied to means : two related samples -- Hypothesis tests applied to means : two independent samples -- Power -- One-way analysis of variance -- Factorial analysis of variance factorial designs -- Repeated-measures analysis of variance -- Chi-square -- Nonparametric and distribution-free statistical tests -- Meta-analysis -- Appendix A : Arithmetic review -- Appendix B : Basic statistical formulae -- Appendix D : Data set -- Appendix E : Statistical tables.
Summary: Designed as an introductory statistics course in psychology, education, and other behavioral sciences, emphasizing the logic of statistical procedures and interpretation of data rather than computational derivations.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 608-614) and index.

Basic concepts -- Displaying data -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of variability -- The normal distribution -- Basic concepts of probability -- Sampling distributions and hypothesis testing -- Correlation -- Regression -- Multiple regression -- Hypothesis testing applied to means : one sample -- Hypothesis tests applied to means : two related samples -- Hypothesis tests applied to means : two independent samples -- Power -- One-way analysis of variance -- Factorial analysis of variance factorial designs -- Repeated-measures analysis of variance -- Chi-square -- Nonparametric and distribution-free statistical tests -- Meta-analysis -- Appendix A : Arithmetic review -- Appendix B : Basic statistical formulae -- Appendix D : Data set -- Appendix E : Statistical tables.

Designed as an introductory statistics course in psychology, education, and other behavioral sciences, emphasizing the logic of statistical procedures and interpretation of data rather than computational derivations.

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