Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences: An Introduction

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