Student study guide with IBM SPSS workbook for essential statistics for the behavioral sciences
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| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles
SAGE
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- How to use this study guide
- Introduction and descriptive statistics
- Introduction to statistics
- Summarizing data : frequency distributions in tables and graphs
- Summarizing data : central tendency
- Summarizing data : variability
- Probability and the foundations of inferential statistics
- Probability, normal distributions, z scores
- Characteristics of the sample mean
- Hypothesis testing : significance, effect size, and power
- Making inferences about one or two means
- Testing means : one-sample t test with confidence intervals
- Testing means : two-independent-sample t test with confidence intervals
- Testing means : the related-samples t test with confidence intervals
- Making inferences about the variability of two or more means
- One-way analysis of variance : between-subjects and within-subjects
- (repeated measures) designs
- Two-way analysis of variance : between-subjects factorial design
- Making inferences about patterns, prediction, and nonparametric tests
- Correlation and linear regression
- Chi-square tests : goodness-of-fit and the test for independence
- Appendix: general instruction guidebook for using spss
- Answers to key term word searches and crossword puzzles
- Answers to practice quizzes
- Statistical tables
- Decision trees
- References.