Donncha Hanna: Psychology Statistics For Dummies, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Beschreibung

The quick, easy way to master all the statistics you'll ever need
The bad news first: if you want a psychology degree you'll need to know statistics. Now for the good news: Psychology Statistics For Dummies. Featuring jargon-free explanations, step-by-step instructions and dozens of real-life examples, Psychology Statistics For Dummies makes the knotty world of statistics a lot less baffling. Rather than padding the text with concepts and procedures irrelevant to the task, the authors focus only on the statistics psychology students need to know. As an alternative to typical, lead-heavy statistics texts or supplements to assigned course reading, this is one book psychology students won't want to be without.
Ease into statistics - start out with an introduction to how statistics are used by psychologists, including the types of variables they use and how they measure them
Get your feet wet - quickly learn the basics of descriptive statistics, such as central tendency and measures of dispersion, along with common ways of graphically depicting information
Meet your new best friend - learn the ins and outs of SPSS, the most popular statistics software package among psychology students, including how to input, manipulate and analyse data
Analyse this - get up to speed on statistical analysis core concepts, such as probability and inference, hypothesis testing, distributions, Z-scores and effect sizes
Correlate that - get the lowdown on common procedures for defining relationships between variables, including linear regressions, associations between categorical data and more
Analyse by inference - master key methods in inferential statistics, including techniques for analysing independent groups designs and repeated-measures research designs
Open the book and find:
Ways to describe statistical data
How to use SPSS statistical software
Probability theory and statistical inference
Descriptive statistics basics
How to test hypotheses
Correlations and other relationships between variables
Core concepts in statistical analysis for psychology
Analysing research designs
Learn to:
Use SPSS to analyse data
Master statistical methods and procedures using psychology-based explanations and examples
Create better reports
Identify key concepts and pass your course

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
Part I: Describing Data 7
Chapter 1: Statistics? I Thought This Was Psychology! 9
Chapter 2: What Type of Data Are We Dealing With? 19
Chapter 3: Inputting Data, Labelling and Coding in SPSS 27
Chapter 4: Measures of Central Tendency 53
Chapter 5: Measures of Dispersion 73
Chapter 6: Generating Graphs and Charts 91
Part II: Statistical Significance 111
Chapter 7: Understanding Probability and Inference 113
Chapter 8: Testing Hypotheses 123
Chapter 9: What's Normal about the Normal Distribution? 139
Chapter 10: Standardised Scores 155
Chapter 11: Effect Sizes and Power 165
Part III: Relationships between Variables 183
Chapter 12: Correlations 185
Chapter 13: Linear Regression 211
Chapter 14: Associations Between Discrete Variables 243
Part IV: Analysing Independent Groups Research Designs 265
Chapter 15: Independent t-tests and Mann-Whitney Tests 267
Chapter 16: Between-Groups ANOVA 285
Chapter 17: Post Hoc Tests and Planned Comparisons for Independent Groups Designs 313
Part V: Analysing Repeated Measures Research Designs 327
Chapter 18: Paired t-tests and Wilcoxon Tests 329
Chapter 19: Within-Groups ANOVA 347
Chapter 20: Post Hoc Tests and Planned Comparisons for Repeated Measures Designs 379
Chapter 21: Mixed ANOVA 395
Part VI: The Part of Tens 415
Chapter 22: Ten Pieces of Good Advice For Inferential Testing 417
Chapter 23: Ten Tips for Writing Your Results Section 421
Index 425

Klappentext

Learn to:

• Use SPSS to analyse data
• Master statistical methods and procedures using psychology-based explanations and examples
• Create better reports
• Identify key concepts and pass your course

The quick, easy way to master all the statistics you'll ever need

The bad news first: if you want a psychology degree you'll need to know statistics. Now for the good news: Psychology Statistics For Dummies. Featuring jargon-free explanations, step-by-step instructions and dozens of real-life examples, Psychology Statistics For Dummies makes the knotty world of statistics a lot less baffling. Rather than padding the text with concepts and procedures irrelevant to the task, the authors focus only on the statistics psychology students need to know. As an alternative to typical, lead-heavy statistics texts or supplements to assigned course reading, this is one book psychology students won't want to be without.

• Ease into statistics ? start out with an introduction to how statistics are used by psychologists, including the types of variables they use and how they measure them
• Get your feet wet ? quickly learn the basics of descriptive statistics, such as central tendency and measures of dispersion, along with common ways of graphically depicting information
• Meet your new best friend ? learn the ins and outs of SPSS, the most popular statistics software package among psychology students, including how to input, manipulate and analyse data
• Analyse this ? get up to speed on statistical analysis core concepts, such as probability and inference, hypothesis testing, distributions, Z-scores and effect sizes
• Correlate that ? get the lowdown on common procedures for defining relationships between variables, including linear regressions, associations between categorical data and more
• Analyse by inference ? master key methods in inferential statistics, including techniques for analysing independent groups designs and repeated-measures research designs

Open the book and find:

• Ways to describe statistical data
• How to use SPSS statistical software
• Probability theory and statistical inference
• Descriptive statistics basics
• How to test hypotheses
• Correlations and other relationships between variables
• Core concepts in statistical analysis for psychology
• Analysing research designs