Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

<div class="c-section-headers-non-traditional-number-list_container"> <h2>Brief Contents</h2> <ol> <li>Displaying the Order in a Group of Numbers Using Tables and Graphs</li> <li>The Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, and Z Scores</li> <li>Correlation and Prediction</li> <li>Some Key Ingredients for Inferential Statistics: The Normal Curve, Sample versus Population, and Probability</li> <li>Introduction to Hypothesis Testing</li> <li>Hypothesis Tests with Means of Samples</li> <li>Making Sense of Statistical Significance: Effect Size and Statistical Power</li> <li>Introduction to the t Test: Single Sample and Dependent Means</li> <li>The t Test for Independent Means</li> <li>Introduction to the Analysis of Variance</li> <li>Chi-Square Tests and Strategies When Population Distributions Are Not Normal</li> <li>A Closer Look at Advanced Statistical Procedures in Research Articles</li> <li>Applying Statistical Methods in Your Own Research Project</li> </ol> <h3>Appendix A: Tables</h3> <h3>Appendix B: Answers to Set I Practice Problems</h3> <h3>Appendix C: Major Formulas</h3> <h3>Appendix D: Steps of Hypothesis Testing for Major Procedures</h3> <h3>Appendix E: A Closer Look at the Logic and Language of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research</h3> </div>