The Fourth Edition of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences by award-winning author Gregory Privitera aims to inspire readers to use statistics properly to better understand the world around them. The new edition offers a greater awareness of the best practices of analysis in the behavioral sciences, with a focus on transparency in recording, managing, analyzing, and interpreting data.
PART I. INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
1. Introduction to Statistics
2. Summarizing Data: Frequency Distributions in Tables and Graphs
3. Summarizing Data: Central Tendency
4. Summarizing Data: Variability
PART II. PROBABILITY AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
5. Probability
6. Probability, Normal Distributions, and z Scores
7. Probability and Sampling Distributions
8. Hypothesis Testing: Significance, Effect Size, Estimation, and Power
PART III. MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT ONE OR TWO MEANS
9. Testing Means: One-Sample t Test With Confidence Intervals
10. Testing Means: Two-Independent-Sample t Tests With Confidence Intervals
11. Testing Means: The Related-Samples t Test With Confidence Intervals
PART IV. MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT THE VARIABILITY OF TWO OR MORE MEANS
12. Analysis of Variance: One-Way Between-Subjects Design
13. Analysis of Variance: One-Way Within-Subjects (Repeated-Measures) Design
14. Analysis of Variance: Two-Way Between-Subjects Factorial Design
PART V. MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT PATTERNS, FREQUENCIES, AND ORDINAL DATA
15. Correlation
16. Linear Regression and Multiple Regression
17. Nonparametric Tests: Chi-Square Tests
18. Nonparametric Tests: Tests for Ordinal Data
Appendix A. Overview of Core Statistical Concepts in the Behavioral Sciences
Appendix B. Basic Math Review and Summation Notation
Appendix C. SPSS General Instructions Guide With Steps for Evaluating Assumptions for Inferential Statistics
Appendix D. Statistical Tables
Appendix E.
Chapter Solutions for Even-Numbered Problems
Glossary
References
Index
