Established researchers and first-year graduate psychology students, virtually all of whom are required to take two or three quarters of statistics. This book's goal is to help students develop skills of scientific inferences. To accomplish this, the author has developed the experimental pyramid which summarizes the philosophy of the book. Containing six levels, the pyramid portrays a hierarchy of considerations involved in empirical investigation. Unlike most texts, this one does not place the usual emphasis on null hypothesis testing and it de-emphasizes computational formulas to invest...

"Measurement and Representation of Sensations "offers a glimpse into the most sophisticated current mathematical approaches to psychophysical problems. In this book, editors Hans Colonius and Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, top scholars in the field, present a broad spectrum of innovative approaches and techniques to classical problems in psychophysics at different levels of stimulus complexity. The chapters emphasize rigorous mathematical constructions to define psychophysical concepts and relate them to observable phenomena. The techniques presented, both deterministic and probabilistic, are all...