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Statistics For The Terrified

ISBN: 9780131930117 | 0131930117
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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SummaryTable of Contents
Written in a personal and informal style, this book helps readers make the leap from apprehension to comprehension. Statistics For The Terrified4/e teaches students how to use SPSS, one of the most widely used statistical software packages. This book successfully encourages readers grasp the meaning of basic statistical concepts and to solve statistical problems through a unique blend of humor, logic, and common sense. Examples problems are provided using SPSS for every key concept along with step-by-step assistance, without the need for length... MORE
Prefacexi
SECTION I Essentials for Statistics
1(28)
Effective Strategies for Studying Statistics
3(5)
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Effective Strategies for Studying Statistics
4(4)
Overcoming Math Anxiety
8(9)
What Causes Math Anxiety?
8(1)
Overview of Rational-Emotive Therapy
9(1)
Irrational Beliefs
10(3)
How to Deal with Math Anxiety
13(4)
How to Use SPSS
17(12)
What is SPSS?
17(1)
Starting SPSS
18(3)
Basic Steps in SPSS Data Analysis
21(5)
Finding Help in SPSS
26(3)
SECTION II Describing Univariate Data
29(62)
Frequency Distributions
31(16)
What are Statistics?
31(1)
Variables
32(1)
Scales of Measurement
33(2)
Frequency Distributions
35(2)
Graphing Data
37(5)
The Normal Curve
42(2)
Problems
44(3)
Descriptive Statistics
47(17)
What are Statistics?
47(1)
Measures of Central Tendency
48(2)
Selecting a Measure of Central Tendency
50(3)
Measures of Variability
53(5)
Calculating Descriptive Statistics in SPSS
58(4)
Problem
62(2)
The Normal Curve
64(7)
What is the Normal Curve?
64(2)
Proportions of Scores under the Normal Curve
66(3)
Problems
69(2)
Percentiles and Standard Scores
71(20)
Percentiles
73(1)
Standard Scores
74(4)
Other Standard Scores
78(2)
Converting Standard Scores to Percentiles
80(6)
A Word of Warning
86(1)
Problems
87(4)
SECTION III Correlation and Regression
91(28)
Correlation Coefficients
93(14)
Correlation Coefficients
94(2)
Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient (rxy)
96(3)
Interpreting Correlation Coefficients
99(1)
Creating a Scatterplot
100(1)
Other Methods of Correlation
101(1)
Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient
102(1)
Problems
103(4)
Linear Regression
107(12)
Standard Error of the Estimate
112(3)
Problems
115(4)
SECTION IV Inferential Statistics
119(80)
Introduction to Inferential Statistics
121(15)
Probability
123(1)
The Sampling Experiment
124(2)
Sample Values (Statistics) and Population Values (Parameters)
126(3)
The Null Hypothesis
129(3)
Type I and Type II Errors
132(1)
Statistical Significance and Type I Error
133(1)
Problems
134(2)
The t Test
136(16)
The t Test for Independent Samples
138(1)
Assumptions for Using the t Test for Independent Samples
138(1)
Formula for the t Test for Independent Samples
139(1)
Conducting a t Test for Independent Samples
140(4)
The t Test for Dependent (Matched) Samples
144(3)
Directional Versus Nondirectional Tests
147(1)
Problems
148(4)
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
152(16)
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
154(4)
Conducting an ANOVA in SPSS
158(3)
Strength of Association
161(1)
Post hoc Analyses
161(1)
The Scheffe Method of Post hoc Analysis
162(2)
Problems
164(4)
Nonparametric Statistics: Chi-square
168(8)
Nonparametric Statistical Tests
168(2)
The One-way Chi-square (x2) Test
170(1)
Conducting Chi-square in SPSS
171(1)
One-way Test of Chi-square
172(2)
A Bit More
174(1)
Problem
174(2)
Postscript
176(23)
Congratulations!
176(1)
Review of Book
176(3)
APPENDICES
Basic Math Review
179(12)
Proportions of Area Under the Standard Normal Curve
191(4)
Random Selection
195(4)
Index199

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