Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences

by Bruce M. King, Edward W. Minium

Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction Descriptive Statistics Inferential Statistics Our Concern: Applied Statistics Variables and Constants Scales of Measurement Scales of Measurement and Problems of Statistical Treatment Do Statistics Lie? Point of Controversy CHAPTER 2 Frequency Distributions, Percentiles, and Percentile Ranks CHAPTER 3 Graphic Representation of Frequency Distributions CHAPTER 4 Central Tendency CHAPTER 5Variability and Standard (z) Scores CHAPTER 6Standard Scores and the Normal Curve CHAPTER 7Correlation CHAPTER 8 Prediction CHAPTER 9 Interpretive Aspects of Correlation and Regression CHAPTER 10 Probability CHAPTER 11 Random Sampling and Sampling Distributions CHAPTER 12 Introduction to Statistical linference: Testing Hypotheses about Single Means CHAPTER 13 Interpreting the Results of Hypothesis Testing: Effect Size, Type I and Type II Errors, and Power CHAPTER -1 4 Testing Hypotheses about the Difference between Two 1Independent Groups

Genres: Psychology

516 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

Reviews

[Z-r0 · Rating 2 out of 5]

A must read

[CM · Rating 3 out of 5]

A shorter, introductory text with depth and rigor (but never intimidating). It should be on the reading list of all intro analysis course for social science. Practice questions are somehow fewer in this text (like 15 a chapter) but it covers a range of variety (and difficulty) seldom seen in this kind of textbooks.

[Ricardo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to ready. Basic statistics without complication, focused on application.