Drawing Inferences from Statistical Data

ISBN-13: 9781854331168 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 70 str.

Sandy MacRae

Opis

The third in a series of three open learning units on research methods for the behavioural sciences. They are suitable either for classroom use or as distance learning material for students working alone and make extensive use of questions, examples, illustrations, self assessment exercises and project work. The units assume no prior knowledge of statistics or of experimental methods, and are suitable for students across a range of behavioural and human sciences, including health care and social work. This third unit looks at drawing inferences from statistical data.

Spis treści

1. Making inferences about populations.

2. The Characteristics of significance tests.

3. Inferences from scores that occur in pairs.

4. Inferences from scores that are not in pairs.

5. Interpreting the frequencies of categories in a single sample.

6. Interpreting the frequencies of categories in two or more samples.

7. Summary of the statistical methods in this unit.

Glossary.

Answers to self–assessment questions.

Answers to ′something to try′ activities

Blurb

Open Learning Units offer a very flexible approach to the teaching of psychology. They are designed to be more than sufficient for the purposes of A/S and A–Level psychology, and the applied emphasis will appeal to various vocational courses such as those offered by BTEC and also to mature students on Access courses.
Their primary use will be in the classroom with a tutor′s guidance, but the interactive style makes them equally appropriate for the purposes of self–study. More advanced students might want to use the Units to learn at their own pace, and in all cases, the careful structure of the writing and the extensive use of Examples, Open Questions and Self–Assessment Questions make them ideal revision guides.