Data Analysis in the Psychological Sciences : A Practical, Applied, Multimedia Approach / Leyre Castro, J. Toby Mordkoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro, Leyre, author.

Mordkoff, J. Toby, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 pages) : illustrations

Annual

Place of Publication:

Johnson County, IA : University of Iowa Libraries, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This open resources textbook contains 10 Units that describe and explain the main concepts in statistical analysis of psychological data. In addition to conceptual descriptions and explanations of the basic analyses for descriptive statistics, this textbook also explains how to conduct those analyses with common statistical software (Excel) and open-source free software (R).

Contents:

Introduction

Main Body

Unit 1. Introduction to Statistics for Psychological Science

Unit 2. Managing Data

Unit 3. Descriptive Statistics for Psychological Research

Unit 4. Descriptive Statistics with Excel

Unit 5. Statistics with R: Introduction and Descriptive Statistics

Unit 6. Brief Introduction to Statistical Significance

Unit 7. Correlational Measures

Unit 8. Scatterplots and Correlational Analysis in R

Unit 9. Simple Linear Regression

Unit 10. Simple Linear Regression in R

Glossary.

Notes:

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