Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences,Fifth Edition
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Substantially revised and updated, the new Fifth Edition reflects the changes that have occurred in the field of psychological statistics over the past decade. This revision focuses on conceptual growth. It helps readers develop an understanding of statistical logic and procedures, the properties of statistical devices, the importance of the assumptions underlying statistical tools, and what happens when the strict requirements of statistical theory meet the circumstances of real-world data.

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CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1

CHAPTER 2 Frequency Distributions, Percentiles, and Percentile Ranks 19

CHAPTER 3 Graphic Representation of Frequency Distributions 37

CHAPTER 4 Central Tendency 55

CHAPTER 5 Variability and Standard (z) Scores 69

CHAPTER 6 Standard Scores and the Normal Curve 89

CHAPTER 7 Correlation 105

CHAPTER 8 Prediction 133

CHAPTER 9 Interpretive Aspects of Correlation and Regression 151

CHAPTER 10 Probability 165

CHAPTER 11 Random Sampling and Sampling Distributions 179

CHAPTER 12 Introduction to Statistical Inference: Testing Hypotheses about Single Means (z and t) 195

CHAPTER 13 Interpreting the Results of Hypothesis Testing: Effect Size, Type I and Type II Errors, and Power 225

CHAPTER 14 Testing Hypotheses about the Difference between Two Independent Groups 247

CHAPTER 15 Testing for a Difference between Two Dependent (Correlated) Groups 273

CHAPTER 16 Inference about Correlation Coefficients 287

CHAPTER 17 An Alternative to Hypothesis Testing: Confidence Intervals 295

CHAPTER 18 Chi-Square and Inference about Frequencies 315

CHAPTER 19 Testing for Differences among Three or More Groups: One-Way Analysis of Variance (and Some Alternatives) 335

CHAPTER 20 Factorial Analysis of Variance: The Two-Factor Design for Independent Groups 369

CHAPTER 21 Some (Almost) Assumption-Free Tests 389

Epilogue: The Realm of Statistics 411

APPENDIX A Review of Basic Mathematics 415

APPENDIX B List of Symbols 425

APPENDIX C Answers to Problems 429

APPENDIX D Statistical Tables 445

REFERENCES 473

INDEX 481

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