Full Description
This Study Guide for introductory statistics courses in psychology departments is designed to accompany Neil J. Salkind and Bruce B. Frey's best-selling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, Seventh Edition. Extra exercises; activities; and true/false, multiple choice, and essay questions (with answers to all questions) feature psychology-specific content to help further student mastery of text concepts. Two additional appendix items in this guide include: Practice with Real Data!, which outlines four experiments and provides students with the datasets to run the analyses, plus Writing Up Your Results - Guidelines based on APA style.
Contents
Chapter 1. Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You
Chapter 2. Computing and Understanding Averages: Means to an End
Chapter 3. Understanding Variability: Vivé la Différence
Chapter 4. Creating Graphs: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words
Chapter 5. Computing Correlation Coefficients: Ice Cream and Crime
Chapter 6. An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity: Just the Truth
Chapter 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions
Chapter 8. Probability and Why it Counts: Fun with a Bell-Shaped Curve
Chapter 9. Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me
Chapter 10. The One-Sample z-Test: Only the Lonely
Chapter 11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups
Chapter 12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups
Chapter 13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance
Chapter 14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance—A Brief Introduction
Chapter 15. Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient: Cousins or Just Good Friends?
Chapter 16. Using Linear Regression: Predicting the Future
Chapter 17. Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests: What to Do When You're Not Normal
Chapter 18. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About
Chapter 19. Data Mining: An Introduction to Getting the Most Out of Your BIG Data
Appendix A. Practice With Real Data!
Appendix B. Writing Up Your Results—Guidelines Based on APA Style
