Statistical Applications for the Behavioral Sciences

Partial table of contents: BASIC CONCEPTS OF RESEARCH AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Basic Concepts in Research Scales of Measurement and Data Display Measures of Central Tendency The Normal Curve and Transformations: Percentiles, z Scores and T Scores INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: PARAMETRIC TESTS Hypothesis Testing and Sampling Distributions Testing the Significance of a Single Mean: The Single-Sample z and t Tests Directional and Nondirectional Testing of the Difference Between Two Means: The Independent-Samples t Test Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing Two-Way Analysis of Variance Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance Linear Correlation Linear Regression INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: NONPARAMETRIC TESTS The Chi-Square Test Other Nonparametric Tests Appendices Glossary References Index.