Statistics Without Maths for Psychology

Christine P. Dancey is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of East London. John Reidy is Head of Academic Operations in the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics at Sheffield Hallam University.

Preface 

Guided tour  

Acknowledgements

1 Variables and research design

2 Introduction to SPSS

3 Descriptive statistics

4 Probability, sampling and distributions

5 Hypothesis testing and statistical significance

6 Correlational analysis: Pearson’s r

7 Analyses of differences between two conditions: the t-test

8 Issues of significance

9 Measures of association

10 Analysis of differences between three or more conditions

11 Analysis of variance with more than one IV

12 Regression analysis

13 Analysis of three or more groups partialling out effects of a covariate

14 Introduction to factor analysis

15 Introduction to multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)

16 Non-parametric statistics

Answers to activities and SPSS exercises

Appendix 1: Table of z-scores and the proportion of the standard normal
distribution falling above and below each score

Appendix 2: Table r to zr

Index