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Using and interpreting statistics : a practical text for the health, behavioral, and social sciences / Eric W. Corty.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Elsevier Mosby, 2007.Description: xii, 596 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780323035934 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.5 22
LOC classification:
  • QA276.12 .C675 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
1 Introduction to statistics: purpose, measurement, terminology, and rounding -- 2 Tables and graphs -- 3 Transformed scores I: percentile ranks -- 4 Descriptive statistics: measuring central tendency and variability -- 5 Transformed scores II: standard scores and the normal distribution -- 6 Sampling and confidence levels -- 7 Relationship tests and hypothesis testing: the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient -- 8 Interpreting Pearson product moment correlation coefficients -- 9 Two-sample difference tests: the independent-samples t test -- 10 Multi-sample difference tests I: one way analysis of variance -- 11 Multi-sample difference tests II: factorial and repeated-measures analysis of variance -- 12 The Chi-square test for contingency tables -- 13 What test when: choosing the appropriate statistical test.
Summary: 'Using and Interpreting Statistics' is an introductory text for statistic courses for the health, behavioural or social sciences. It covers all the essential topics needed for an introductory statistics course.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Introduction to statistics: purpose, measurement, terminology, and rounding -- 2 Tables and graphs -- 3 Transformed scores I: percentile ranks -- 4 Descriptive statistics: measuring central tendency and variability -- 5 Transformed scores II: standard scores and the normal distribution -- 6 Sampling and confidence levels -- 7 Relationship tests and hypothesis testing: the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient -- 8 Interpreting Pearson product moment correlation coefficients -- 9 Two-sample difference tests: the independent-samples t test -- 10 Multi-sample difference tests I: one way analysis of variance -- 11 Multi-sample difference tests II: factorial and repeated-measures analysis of variance -- 12 The Chi-square test for contingency tables -- 13 What test when: choosing the appropriate statistical test.

'Using and Interpreting Statistics' is an introductory text for statistic courses for the health, behavioural or social sciences. It covers all the essential topics needed for an introductory statistics course.

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