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 A Practical Text for the Health, Behavioral, and Social Sciences
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By
Eric Corty, PhD, Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Erie, PA, USA
Description
Using and Interpreting Statistics is a uniquely engaging and easy-to-understand introductory statistics text for the health, behavioral,
and social sciences, as well as general statistics courses. Written by an award-winning master teacher, this full-color text - the only
full-color statistics text on the market - covers all the essential topics needed for a first course in statistics. It uses a variety
of memorable examples not only from the health, behavioral, and social sciences, but also from everyday life to help drive home important
topics and help students apply the material to their course of study. In addition, a unique collection of research-based learning aids
promotes in-depth learning. Features include Chapter Roadmaps, Group Practice Exercises, Review Exercises and Homework Problems, and
a unique "Tom and Harry" mnemonic that helps students "routinize" statistical decision-making.
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 Intervals
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. Multiple-Sample Difference Tests I: One-Way Analysis of Variance
11. Multiple-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
Appendices
Answers to Review Questions
Index
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Paperback, 608 pages, publication date: SEP-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-03593-4
ISBN-10: 0-323-03593-0
Imprint: MOSBY
029/241
Last update: 8 Jul 2008
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