Statistics in plain english / Timothy C. Urdan.

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Social Science Research Principles and Terminology; CHAPTER 2 Measures of Central Tendency; CHAPTER 3 Measures of Variability; CHAPTER 4 The Normal Distribution; CHAPTER 5 Standardization and z Scores; CHAPTER 6 Standard Errors; CHAPTER 7 Statistical Significance, Effect Size, and Confidence Intervals; CHAPTER 8 Correlation; CHAPTER 9 t Tests; CHAPTER 10 One-Way Analysis of Variance; CHAPTER 11 Factorial Analysis of Variance; CHAPTER 12 Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance; CHAPTER 13 Regression. 
• CHAPTER 14 The Chi-Square Test of IndependenceCHAPTER 15 Factor Analysis and Reliability Analysis: Data Reduction Techniques; Appendices; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; References; Glossary of Symbols; Index. 

• This inexpensive paperback provides a brief, simple overview of statistics to help readers gain a better understanding of how statistics work and how to interpret them correctly. Each chapter describes a different statistical technique, ranging from basic concepts like central tendency and describing distributions to more advanced concepts such as t tests, regression, repeated measures ANOVA, and factor analysis. Each chapter begins with a short description of the statistic and when it should be used. This is followed by a more in-depth explanation of how the statistic works. Finally, each cha 

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QA276.12.U75 2010 (LCC)

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