Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
7th Edition
Published on 27. January 2012
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-0-470-90776-4 (ISBN)
Description
This popular and well-respected statistics text has been thoroughly revised to present all the topics behavioral science students need. Now featuring expanded Web sites for instructors and students, the authors provide a framework that connects all of the topics in the text and allows for easy comparison of different statistical analyses. Refined over seven editions by master teachers, this book gives instructors and students alike the well laid out examples and exercises to support the teaching and learning of statistics for both manipulation and consumption of data.
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Product info
gebunden
Edition
7. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Charts: 50 B&W, 0 Color; Exhibits: 100 B&W, 0 Color; Graphs: 50 B&W, 0 Color
Dimensions
Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 19.5 cm
Thickness: 3.5 cm
Weight
1118 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-90776-4 (9780470907764)
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R. Brooke Lea | Barry H. Cohen
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10/2025
8th Edition
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Joan Welkowitz | Barry H. Cohen | Robert B. Ewen
Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
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07/2006
6th Edition
Wiley
€122.00
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Persons
JOAN WELKOWITZ, PhD, (deceased) was professor of psychology at New York University. She directed the graduate clinical program for ten years. She taught courses in methodology and statistics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than twenty-five years and?was the primary author of Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences.
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-Explaining Psychological Statistics, Third Edition, and Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
R. BROOKE LEA, PhD, is professor and chair of the Psychology Department at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.?His research publications concern the comprehension processes that occur during reading of text and poetry.
Content
Part I Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Frequency Distributions and Graphs
Chapter 3: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability
Chapter 4: Standardized Scores and the Normal Distribution
Part II Basic Inferential Statistics
Chapter 5: Introduction to Statistical Inference
Chapter 6: The One-Sample t Test and Interval Estimation
Chapter 7: Testing Hypotheses about the Difference between the Means of Two Populations
Chapter 8: Nonparametric Tests for the Difference between Two Means
Chapter 9: Linear Correlation
Chapter 10: Prediction and Linear Regression
Chapter 11: Introduction to Power Analysis
Part III Analysis of Variance Methods
Chapter 12: One-Way Analysis of Variance
Chapter 13: Multiple Comparisons
Chapter 14: Introduction to Factorial Design: Two-Way Analysis of Variance
Chapter 15: Repeated-Measures ANOVA
Part IV Nonparametric Statistics for Categorical Data
Chapter 16: Probability of Discrete Events and the Binomial Distribution
Chapter 17: Chi Square Tests
Appendix
Glossary of Terms