Fundamental statistics for the behavioral sciences / David C. Howell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, David C.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Statistical methods.

Social sciences.

Psychometrics.

Medical Subjects:

Psychometrics.

Physical Description:

xvii, 649 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Eighth edition.

Place of Publication:

Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2014.

Summary:

Designed as an introductory statistics course in psychology, education, and other behavioral sciences, emphasizing the logic of statistical procedures and interpretation of data rather than computational derivations.

Contents:

Basic concepts

Displaying data

Measures of central tendency

Measures of variability

The normal distribution

Basic concepts of probability

Sampling distributions and hypothesis testing

Correlation

Regression

Multiple regression

Hypothesis testing applied to means : one sample

Hypothesis tests applied to means : two related samples

Hypothesis tests applied to means : two independent samples

Power

One-way analysis of variance

Factorial analysis of variance factorial designs

Repeated-measures analysis of variance

Chi-square

Nonparametric and distribution-free statistical tests

Meta-analysis

Appendix A : Arithmetic review

Appendix B : Basic statistical formulae

Appendix D : Data set

Appendix E : Statistical tables.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 608-614) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781285076911

1285076915

9781285081809

1285081803

9781285076935

1285076931

OCLC:

810122692