Title:
Statistics alive!
Author:
Steinberg, Wendy J.
ISBN:
9781412956574
9781412956598
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Publication Information:
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2008.
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 490 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
General Note:
Also available with CD-ROM.
Contents:
Part I. Preliminary Information: "First Things First" -- 1. Math Review, Vocabulary, and Symbols -- 2. Measurement Scales -- Part II. Tables and Graphs: "On Display" -- 3. Frequency and Percentile Tables -- 4. Graphs and Plots -- Part III. Central Tendency: "Bull's-Eye" -- 5. Mode, Median, and Mean -- Part IV. Dispersion: "From Here to Eternity -- 6. Range, Variance, and Standard Deviation -- Part V. The Normal Curve and Standard Scores: "What's the Score?" -- 7. Percent Area and the Normal Curve -- 8. z Scores -- 9. Score Transformations and Their Effects -- Part VI. Probability: "Odds Are" -- 10. Probability Definitions and Theorems -- 11. The Binomial Distribution -- Part VII. Inferential Theory: "Of Truth and Relativity" -- 12. Sampling, Variables, and Hypotheses -- 13. Errors and Significance -- 14. The z Score as a Hypothesis Test -- Part VIII. The One-Sample Test: "Are They From Our Part of Town?" -- 15. Standard Error of the Mean -- 16. Normal Deviate Z Test -- 17. One-Sample t-Test -- 18. Interpreting and Reporting One-Sample t: Error, Confidence, and Parameter Estimates -- Part IX. The Two-Sample Test: "Ours Is Better Than Yours" -- 19. Standard Error of the Difference Between the Means -- 20. t Test With Independent Samples and Equal Sample Sizes -- 21. t Test With Unequal Sample Sizes -- 22. t Test With Related Samples -- 23. Interpreting and Reporting Two-Sample t: Error, Confidence, and Parameter Estimates -- Part X. The Multisample Test: "Ours Is Better Than Yours or Theirs" -- 24. ANOVA Logic: Sums of Squares, Partitioning, and Mean Squares -- 25. One-Way ANOVA: Independent Samples and Equal Sample Sizes -- Part XI. Post Hoc Tests: "So Who's Responsible?" -- 26. Tukey HSD Test -- 27. Scheffe Test -- Part XII. More Than One Independent Variable: "Double Dutch Jump Rope" -- 28. Main Effects and Interaction Effects -- 29. Factorial ANOVA -- Part XIII. Nonparametric Statistics: "Without Form or Void" -- 30. One-Variable Chi-Square: Goodness of Fit -- 31. Two-Variable Chi-Square: Test of Independence -- Part XIV. Effect Size and Power: "How Much Is Enough?" -- 32. Measures of Effect Size -- 33. Power and the Factors Affecting It -- Part XV. Correlation: "Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go" -- 34. Relationship Strength and Direction -- 35. Pearson r -- 36. Correlation Pitfalls -- Part XVI. Linear Prediction: "You're So Predictable" -- 37. Linear Prediction -- 38. Standard Error of Prediction -- Part XVII. Review: "Say It Again, Sam" -- 39. Selecting the Appropriate Analysis.
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