Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780367735968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 730 str.

Rand Wilcox

Opis

Designed for a two-semester, introductory course for graduate students in the social sciences, this text illustrates how to use R to apply both standard and modern methods to correct known problems with classic techniques. Numerous illustrations provide a conceptual basis for understanding why practical problems with classic methods were missed

Spis treści

Introduction. Numerical and Graphical Summaries of Data. Probability and Related Concepts. Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals. Hypothesis Testing. Regression and Correlation. Bootstrap Methods. Comparing Two Independent Groups. Comparing Two Dependent Groups. One-Way ANOVA. Two-Way and Three-Way Designs. Comparing More than Two Dependent Groups. Multiple Comparisons. Some Multivariate Methods. Robust Regression and Measures of Association. Basic Methods for Analyzing Categorical Data. Answers to Selected Exercises. Tables. Basic Matrix Algebra. References. Index.

O autorze

Rand Wilcox has been a Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California since 1987. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1976. His research interests are statistical methods, particularly robust methods for comparing groups and studying associations. He also collaborates with researchers in occupational therapy, gerontology, biology and psychology. He is the author of four books.