Explaining Psychological Statistics
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ISBN: 0470007184 / Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, October 2007
This comprehensive graduate-level statistics text is aimed at students with a minimal background in the area or those who are wary of the subject matter. The new edition of this successful text will continue to offer students a lively and engaging introduction to the field, provide comprehensive coverage of the material, and will also include examples and exercises using common statistical software packages (SPSS).
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Cohen (psychology, New York U.) brings new sections on mixed-design analysis of variance (ANOVA) and robust statistics as well as expanded coverage of effect-sized measures and confidence intervals to this edition. Cohen takes an accessible, conversation approach when introducing the conceptual foundations and basic of statistic procedures, a practice he continues with material on frequency tables, graphs, distributions, measures of central tendency and variability, standardized scores and the normal distribution, hypothesis testing with one or two samples, internal estimation and the t distribution, the t test for two independent sample means, statistical power and effect size, linear correlation and regression, the matched t test, one-way independent ANOVA and two-way ANOVA, multiple regression and its connection to ANOVA, nonparametric statistics, chi-square tests and statistical tests for ordinal data. Cohen includes selected answers to the text's exercises. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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