Designed to engage students and lower their "fear factor", Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences is a concise, user-friendly text that prepares students for the real-world applications of statistics. Students will learn the full range of statistical tests available to them, the skills to choose the appropriate statistical analysis when faced with a dataset, and the skills to interpret the output from the wide variety of statistical software packages available (including Excel and SPSS).
About the Authors Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Descriptive Statistics 1. Introduction to Statistics: What Are You Getting Into? 2. Getting Started With Statistics 3. Frequency Distributions and Graphing 4. The Mean and Standard Deviation 5. The Normal Distribution, Standardized Scores, and Probability Part II. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing 6. Sampling Distribution of the Mean and the Single-Sample z Statistic 7. Inferential Statistics 8. Single-Sample Tests 9. Two-Sample Tests Part III. Additional Hypothesis Tests 10. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) 11. Complex ANOVA Designs 12. Correlation and Regression 13. General Linear Model 14. Nonparametric Tests 15. Review Homework Answers Appendix: Statistical Tables Glossary References Index