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The heart of this book was written over a summer in a small apartment near the Place Saint Ferdinand, having been outlined in nearby cafes and on walks in the Bois de Boulogne. It is based on our 30 years of experience teaching, doing research, and writing. We believe that this book is as different from conventional lot of statistics books as Paris is from Calcutta, yet still comfortable and stimulating to the long-suffering community of statistics instructors.

Preface to the Instructor

xiii

(6)

Introduction to the Student

xix

1 Displaying the Order in a Group of Numbers

1

(21)

2 The Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, and Z Scores

22

(22)

3 Correlation and Prediction

44

(30)

4 Some Key Ingredients for Inferential Statistics: The Normal Curve, Probability, and Population Versus Sample

74

(16)

5 Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

90

(18)

6 Hypothesis Tests With Means of Samples

108

(18)

7 Making Sense of Statistical Significance: Error, Power, and Effect Size

126

(26)

8 The t Test for Dependent Means

152

(26)

9 The t Test for Independent Means

178

(20)

10 Introduction To the Analysis of Variance

198

(32)

11 Chi-Square and Strategies when Population Distributions Are Not Normal

230

(34)

12 Making Sense of Advanced Statistical Procedures in Research Articles

264

(23)

Appendix: Tables

287

(8)

Answers to Selected Practice Problems

295

(12)

Glossary

307

(8)

Glossary of Symbols

315

(2)

References

317

(4)

Index

321

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Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: A Brief Course

Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: A Brief Course

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