Explaining Psychological Statistics

Barry H. Cohen

ISBN 10: 1118436601 / ISBN 13: 9781118436608

Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc, US, 2014

About this Item

A clear and accessible statistics text- now fully updated and revised Now with a new chapter showing students how to apply the right test in the right way to yield the most accurate and true result, Explaining Psychological Statistics, Fourth Edition offers students an engaging introduction to the field. Presenting the material in a logically flowing, non-intimidating way, this comprehensive text covers both introductory and advanced topics in statistics, from the basic concepts (and limitations) of null hypothesis testing to mixed-design ANOVA and multiple regression. The Fourth Edition covers: Basic statistical proceduresFrequency tables, graphs, and distributionsMeasures of central tendency and variabilityOne- and two-sample hypothesis testsHypothesis testingInterval estimation and the t distribution.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Explaining Psychological Statistics
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc, US
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118436601
• ISBN 13: 9781118436608
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1468 grams

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Synopsis

A clear and accessible statistics text― now fully updated and revised

Now with a new chapter showing students how to apply the right test in the right way to yield the most accurate and true result, Explaining Psychological Statistics, Fourth Edition offers students an engaging introduction to the field. Presenting the material in a logically flowing, non-intimidating way, this comprehensive text covers both introductory and advanced topics in statistics, from the basic concepts (and limitations) of null hypothesis testing to mixed-design ANOVA and multiple regression.

The Fourth Edition covers:

• Basic statistical procedures
• Frequency tables, graphs, and distributions
• Measures of central tendency and variability
• One- and two-sample hypothesis tests
• Hypothesis testing
• Interval estimation and the t distribution

About the Author

BARRY H. COHEN, PHD, is the Director of the Master’s Program in Psychology at New York University, where he has been teaching statistics for more than twenty years. He is the coauthor of two other successful statistics books from Wiley: Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Seventh Edition and Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.