Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences: An Introduction begins with an introduction to the basic concepts, before providing a detailed explanation of basic statistical tests and concepts such as descriptive statistics, probability, the binomial distribution, continuous random variables, the normal distribution, the Chi-Square distribution, the analysis of categorical data, t-tests, correlation and regression. This timely and highly readable text will be invaluable to undergraduate students of psychology, and students of research methods courses in related disciplines, as well as anyone with an interest in the basic concepts and tests associated with statistics in the behavioural sciences.
Author(s): Riccardo Russo
Edition: 1
Publisher: Psychology Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Commentary: 72830
Pages: 257
Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 Introduction and basic concepts......Page 16
2 Descriptive statistics......Page 29
3 Introduction to probability......Page 57
4 Probability distributions and the binomial distribution......Page 72
5 Continuous random variables and the normal distribution......Page 93
6 The chi square distribution and the analysis of categorical data......Page 115
7 Statistical tests on proportions......Page 138
8 Sampling distribution of the mean and its use in hypothesis testing......Page 149
9 Comparing a pair of means the matched and the independent samples t test......Page 161
10 Nonparametric statistical tests......Page 183
11 Correlation......Page 191
12 Regression......Page 217
13 Introduction to power analysis......Page 229
Appendix......Page 246
References......Page 253
Index......Page 254
