Statistical Reasoning for the Behavioral Sciences (3rd Edition)

Type

Book

Authors

Richard J. Shavelson

ISBN 10

020518460X

ISBN 13

9780205184606

Tags

Statistics, General, Reference, Research, Sexuality

Abstract

The goal of this text is for readers not only to know the meaning of statistical concepts, but also to be able to use these concepts to solve problems. - from Amazon

Description

Research design in the behavioral sciences -- Statistics in context : research on teacher expectancy -- Frequency distributions -- Measures of central tendency and variability -- The normal distribution -- Joint distributions and correlation coefficients -- Linear regression -- Statistical inference : by intuition -- Probability theory and mathematical distributions -- Statistical inference using the normal distribution -- Decisions, error, and power -- t tests for Case I and Case II research -- One-way analysis of variance -- Factorial analysis of variance -- Randomized-blocks analysis of variance -- Split-plot analysis of variance -- Analysis of covariance -- Multiple regression analysis -- Chi-square tests -- Additional nonparametric statistical tests.

Biblio Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-657) and index.

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