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Essential statistics for the behavioral sciences / Gregory J. Privitera, St. Bonaventure University.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Privitera, Gregory J. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2016]
Subjects:	Social sciences > Statistical methods. Psychology > Statistical methods.

Table of Contents:

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, and z-scores
Characteristics of the sample mean
Hypothesis testing : significance, effect size, and power
Making inferences about one or two
Means
One-sample T test with confidence intervals
Two-independent-sample T test with confidence intervals
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 A: Basic math review and statistical notation
Appendix B: Statistical tables
Appendix C: Chapter solutions for even-numbered problems
Glossary
References
Index.