This Eighth Edition continues to focus students on two key themes that are the cornerstones of this book's success: the importance of looking at the data before beginning a hypothesis test, and the importance of knowing the relationship ...
The approach of Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology, Third Edition, is conceptual rather than mathematical. The authors stress the understanding, applications, and interpretation of concepts rather than derivation and...
As an alternative to typical, lead-heavy statistics texts or supplements to assigned course reading, this is one book psychology students won't want to be without.
Psychological Statistics: The Basics is an accessible guidebook which will walk the reader through the core logic of statistical inference and provide a solid grounding in the techniques necessary to analyse data in the psychological and ...
... L. 267 Patton, M.Q. 248 Pearson's r 173, 182, 183, 212, 380 Peltonen, T. 267 Perfetti, C.A. 123, 126 Perkins, ... 380 Platania, J. 109 platykurtic kurtosis 81 point-biserial correlation 181–2 police, power of 290–1 Popper, K.R. 9, ...
This usually goes by the more userfriendly label Pearson's r.The value of r indicates how strong a ... As with ttests, computation of Pearson's r involves going through a series of standard steps. In essence, these allow us to establish ...
This sixth edition of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology has been fully revised and updated, providing students with the most readable and comprehensive survey of research methods, statistical concepts and procedures in ...
After introducing the theory, the book covers the analysis of contingency tables, t-tests, ANOVAs and regression. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book.
The text opens with introductory discussions of why psychologists conduct and analyze research before digging into the process of designing an experiment and performing statistical analyses.
This book looks at research questions when planning data sampling, that is to design the intended study and to calculate the sample sizes in advance.