Full Description
This study guide includes a wide range of new and key features, including chapter outlines and summaries, learning objectives, key terms, exercises, true/false, multiple choice, and essay questions. AncillariesThe book comes with the datasets (at edge.sagepub.com/salkind6e) to run the analyses, plus Writing Up Your Results - Guidelines based on APA style.
Contents
1. Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages3. Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability4. A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words5. Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients6. Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts9. Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me10. Only the Lonely: The One-Sample z-Test11. t(EA) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups12. t(EA) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance: A Brief Introduction15. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient16. Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression17. What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests18. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About19. (Mini) Data Mining: An Introduction to Getting the Most Out of Your BIG DataAppendix A: Practice With Real Data!Appendix B: Writing Up Your Results: Guidelines Based on APA style
