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Provides students of psychology, education, and behavioral science with an introduction to statistics which emphasizes the relationship between statistical theory and the reality of research. Fosters an understanding of fundamental properties and uses of elementary techniques, appealing to intuitive understanding and common experience. Develops the merit of a statistical approach on logical, rather than mathematically sophisticated, grounds.

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• Introduction
• Preliminary Concepts
• Frequency Distributions, Percentiles, and Percentile Ranks
• Graphic Representation of Frequency Distributions
• Central Tendency
• Variability and Standard z-Scores
• Standard Scores and the Normal Curve
• Correlation
• Prediction
• Interpretive Aspects of Correlation and Regression
• Probability
• Random Sampling and Sampling Distributions
• Introduction to Statistical Inference: Testing Hypotheses About Single Means
• Interpreting the Results of Hypothesis Testing: Effect Size, Type I and Type II Errors, and Power
• Testing Hypotheses About the Difference Between Two Independent Groups
• Testing for a Difference between Two Dependent (Correlated) Groups
• Inference About Correlation Coefficients
• An Alternative to Hypothesis Testing: Confidence Intervals
• Chi-Square and Inference About Frequencies
• Testing for Differences Among Three or More Groups: One-Way Analysis of Variance
• Factorial Analysis of Variance: the Two-Factor Design for Independent Groups
• Some (Almost) Assumption-Free Tests
• Epilogue: The Realm of Statistics
• Appendix A Review of Basic Mathematics
• Appendix B Summation Rules
• Appendix C List of Symbols
• Appendix D Answers to Problems
• Appendix E Statistical Tables
• References