Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: A Brief Course

Brief Contents

• Displaying the Order in a Group of Numbers Using Tables and Graphs
• The Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, and Z Scores
• Correlation and Prediction
• Some Key Ingredients for Inferential Statistics: The Normal Curve, Sample versus Population, and Probability
• Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
• Hypothesis Tests with Means of Samples
• Making Sense of Statistical Significance: Effect Size and Statistical Power
• Introduction to the t Test: Single Sample and Dependent Means
• The t Test for Independent Means
• Introduction to the Analysis of Variance
• Chi-Square Tests and Strategies When Population Distributions Are Not Normal
• A Closer Look at Advanced Statistical Procedures in Research Articles
• Applying Statistical Methods in Your Own Research Project

• Appendix A: Tables

  Appendix B: Answers to Set I Practice Problems

  Appendix C: Major Formulas

  Appendix D: Steps of Hypothesis Testing for Major Procedures

  Appendix E: A Closer Look at the Logic and Language of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research