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Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Renee R. Ha - University of Washington, USA
- James C. Ha - University of Washington, USA
May 2011 | 432 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Designed to engage students and lower their "fear factor", Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences is a concise, user-friendly text that prepares students for the real-world applications of statistics. Students will learn the full range of statistical tests available to them, the skills to choose the appropriate statistical analysis when faced with a dataset, and the skills to interpret the output from the wide variety of statistical software packages available (including Excel and SPSS).
About the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Descriptive Statistics
1. Introduction to Statistics: What Are You Getting Into?
2. Getting Started With Statistics
3. Frequency Distributions and Graphing
4. The Mean and Standard Deviation
5. The Normal Distribution, Standardized Scores, and Probability
Part II. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
6. Sampling Distribution of the Mean and the Single-Sample z Statistic
7. Inferential Statistics
8. Single-Sample Tests
9. Two-Sample Tests
Part III. Additional Hypothesis Tests
10. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
11. Complex ANOVA Designs
12. Correlation and Regression
13. General Linear Model
14. Nonparametric Tests
15. Review
Homework Answers
Appendix: Statistical Tables
Glossary
References
Index
This text, although a good one, does not differ significantly from the one that I am currently using.
Psychology Dept, Virginia Polytechnic Institution / State University
April 12, 2011