Explaining Psychological Statistics
3rd Edition
Published on 6. November 2007
Book
Hardback
864 pages
978-0-470-00718-1 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive graduate-level statistics text is aimed at students with a minimal background in the area or those who are wary of the subject matter. The new edition of this successful text will continue to offer students a lively and engaging introduction to the field, provide comprehensive coverage of the material, and will also include examples and exercises using common statistical software packages (SPSS).
Reviews / Votes
"In conclusion, Cohen's text provides a clear, comprehensive, and modern survey of the most commonly used staistical methods for psychological reseearch. After using the book to learn about these procedures in a statistics course, students and instructors alike will also find it a valuable reference as they progress through their research careers." (Comptes Rendues de Lecture Book Reviews)More details
Edition
3., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 18.5 cm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
1451 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-00718-1 (9780470007181)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Barry H. Cohen
Explaining Psychological Statistics
Book
01/2014
4th Edition
Wiley
€128.50
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Person
Barry H. Cohen, PhD, is the director of the master's program in psychology at New York University, where he has been teaching statistics for more than twenty years. He is the coauthor of two other successful statistics books from Wiley: Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Sixth Edition and Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Content
Preface to the Third Edition.
Acknowledgments.
Part One: Descriptive Statistics.
Chapter 1. Introduction to Psychological Statistics.
Chapter 2. Frequency Tables, Graphs, and Distributions.
Chapter 3. Measures of Central tendency and Variability.
Chapter 4. Standardized Scores and the Normal Distribution.
Part Two: One - And Two-Sample Hypothesis Tests.
Chapter 5. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing: The One-Sample z Test.
Chapter 6. Interval Estimation and the t Distribution.
Chapter 7. The t Test For Two Independent Sample Means.
Chapter 8. Statistical Power and Effect Size.
Part Three: Hypothesis Tests Involving Two Measures on Each Subject.
Chapter 9. Linear Correlation.
Chapter 10. Linear Regression.
Chapter 11. The Matched t Test.
Part Four: Analysis of Variance without Repeated Measures.
Chapter 12. One-Way Independent ANOVA.
Chapter 13. Multiple Comparisons.
Chapter 14. Two-Way ANOVA.
Part Five: Analysis of Variance with Repeated Measures.
Chapter 15. Repeated Measures ANOVA.
Chapter 16. TWO-WAY Mixed Design ANOVA.
Part Six: Multiple Regression and Its Connection to ANOVA.
Chapter 17. Multiple Regression.
Chapter 18. The Regression Approach to ANOVA.
Part Seven: Nonparametric Statistics.
Chapter 19. The Binomial Distribution.
Chapter 20. Chi-Square Tests.
Chapter 21. Statistical Tests for Ordinal Data.
Appendix A. Statistical Tables.
Appendix B. Answers to Selected Exercises.
References.
Index.