King, Bruce M.

Statistical reasoning in psychology and education / Bruce M. King, Edward W. Minium. - 4th ed. - Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2003. - xxii, 550 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-543) and index.

Chapter 1: Introduction - Chapter 2: Preliminary concepts - Chapter 3: Frequency distributions, percentiles and percentile ranks - Chapter 4: Graphic representation of frequency distributions - Chapter 5: Central tendency - Chapter 6: Variability and standard (z) scores - Chapter 7: Standard scores and the normal curve - Chapter 8: Correlation - Chapter 9: Prediction - Chapter 10: Interpretive aspects of correlation and regression - Chapter 11: Probability - Chapter 12: Random sampling and sampling distributions - Chapter 13: Introduction to statistical inference: Testing hypotheses about single means (z and t) - Chapter 14: Interpreting the results of hypothesis testing: Effect size, type I and type II errors and power - Chapter 15: Testing hypotheses about the difference between two independent groups - Chapter 16: Testing for a difference between two dependent (correlated) groups - Chapter 17: Inference about correlation coefficients - Chapter 18: An alternatice to hypothesis testing: confidence intervals - Chapter 19: Chi-square and inference about frequencies - Chapter 20: Testing for differences among three or more groups: one-way analysis of variance (and some alternatives) - Chapter 21: Factorial analysis of variance: the two-factor design for independent groups - Chapter 22: Some (almost) assumption-free tests - Appendixes - References - Index.

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Psychometrics.
Educational statistics.

150.72 / KIN