Data Analysis: A Statistical Primer for Psychology Students

ISBN-13: 9780202309002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 268 str.

Edward L. Wike

Opis

This book is intended for psychology majors and graduate students who are conducting experiments for the first time and are faced with the task of making sense out of their data. This much needed "how-to-do-it" text illustrates the application of statistical methods to the data from small samples. It also serves as a handbook, with twenty-two tables presented at the end of the text that will allow the student to carry out virtually every computation necessary in analyzing his data. Almost all of the examples and illustrations are drawn from actual experiments so that the student can see how professional scientists examine their data. The book also shows students the kinds of data that are encountered in psychological research, the kinds of questions investigators seek to answer, and how these questions are approached.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Opening Shots 2. The Search for Indications 3. Steps to Inference: I. Numbers 4. Steps to Inference: II. Ranks and Signs 5. Steps to Inference: III. Classes 6. Steps to Inference: IV. Relationships 7. Closing Shots; Testing Statistical Hypotheses vs. Confidence Intervals — Multiple-Analysis Revisited — Some Tactics for Research and Data Analysis — Final Remarks; Answers to the Even-Numbered Problems

O autorze

Edward L. Wike