Basic Statistics
Understanding Conventional Methods and Modern Insights
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2009
341 pages
978-0-19-804301-0 (ISBN)
Description
This introductory statistics textbook for non-statisticians covers basic principles, concepts, and methods routinely used in applied research. What sets this text apart is the incorporation of the many advances and insights from the last half century when explaining basic principles. These advances provide a foundation for vastly improving our ability to detect and describe differences among groups and associations among variables and provide a deeper and more accurate sense of when basic methods perform well and when they fail. Assuming no prior training, Wilcox introduces students to basic principles and concepts in a simple manner that makes these advances and insights, as well as standard ideas and methods, easy to understand and appreciate.
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Rand R. Wilcox is the author of 6 previous books and over 240 articles. His main research interests are robust methods, particularly methods aimed at comparing groups and studying associations. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Partial List of Symbols
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Samples versus Populations
- 1.2 Comments on Teaching and Learning Statistics
- 1.3 Comments on Software
- 2. Numerical Summaries of Data
- 2.1 Summation Notation
- 2.2 Measures of Location
- 2.3 Measures of Variation
- 2.4 Detecting Outliers
- 2.5 Some Modern Advances and Insights
- 3. Graphical Summaries of Data and Some Related Issues
- 3.1 Relative Frequencies
- 3.2 Histograms
- 3.3 Boxplots and Stem-and-Leaf Displays
- 3.4 Some Modern Trends and Developments
- 4. Probability and Related Concepts
- 4.1 The Meaning of Probability
- 4.2 Expected Values
- 4.3 Conditional Probability and Independence
- 4.4 The Binomial Probability Function
- 4.5 The Normal Curve
- 4.6 Computing Probabilities Associated with Normal Curves
- 4.7 Some Modern Advances and Insights
- 5. Sampling Distributions
- 5.1 Sampling Distribution of a Binomial Random Variable
- 5.2 Sampling Distribution of the Mean Under Normality
- 5.3 Non-Normality and the Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean
- 5.4 Sampling Distribution of the Median
- 5.5 Modern Advances and Insights
- 6. Estimation
- 6.1 Confidence Interval for the Mean: Known Variance
- 6.2 Confidence Intervals for the Mean: s Not Known
- 6.3 Confidence Intervals for the Population Median
- 6.4 The Binomial: Confidence Interval for the Probability of Success
- 6.5 Modern Advances and Insights
- 7. Hypothesis Testing
- 7.1 Testing Hypotheses about the Mean of a Normal Distribution, s Known
- 7.2 Testing Hypotheses about the Mean of a Normal Distribution, s Not Known
- 7.3 Modern Advances and Insights
- 8. Correlation and Regression
- 8.1 Least Squares Regression
- 8.2 Inferences about the Slope and Intercept
- 8.3 Correlation
- 8.4 Modern Advances and Insights
- 8.5 Some Concluding Remarks
- 9. Comparing Two Groups
- 9.1 Comparing the Means of Two Independent Groups
- 9.2 Comparing Two Dependent Groups
- 9.3 Some Modern Advances and Insights
- 10. Comparing More Than Two Groups
- 10.1 The ANOVA F Test for Independent Groups
- 10.2 Two-Way ANOVA
- 10.3 Modern Advances and Insights
- 11. Multiple Comparisons
- 11.1 Classic Methods for Independent Groups
- 11.2 Methods That Allow Unequal Population Variances
- 11.3 Methods for Dependent Groups
- 11.4 Some Modern Advances and Insights
- 12. Categorical Data
- 12.1 One-Way Contingency Tables
- 12.2 Two-Way Contingency Tables
- 12.3 Some Modern Advances and Insights
- 13. Rank-Based and Nonparametric Methods
- 13.1 Comparing Independent Groups
- 13.2 Comparing Two Dependent Groups
- 13.3 Rank-Based Correlations
- 13.4 Some Modern Advances and Insights
- 13.5 Some Final Comments on Comparing Groups
- Appendix A: Solutions to Selected Exercise Problems
- Appendix B: Tables
- References
- Index
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