Learn statistical reasoning and problem solving from a best selling author who uses a wealth of examples from the social and behavioral sciences, education, nursing/allied health, and business fields, as well as examples from everyday life to help you learn and understand. Praised for his clear explanations, Spatz shows you how to start with a data set, identify the questions it poses, determine and carry out statistical procedures, and using plain English, tell the story the data reveal.
1. Introduction
2. Exploring Data: Frequency Distributions and Graphs
3. Exploring Data: Central Tendency
4. Exploring Data: Variability
5. Other Descriptive Statistics
6. Correlation and Regression
7. Theoretical Distributions Including the Normal distribution
8. Samples, Sampling Distributions, and Confidence Intervals
9. Hypothesis Testing and Effect Size: One-Sample Disigns
10. Hypothesis Testing, Effect Size, and Confidence Intervals: Two-Sample Disigns
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