Statistics without Maths for Psychology

Christine P. Dancey is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of East London. John Reidy is Professor of Psychological Methods and Statistics and Head of Department for the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics at Sheffield Hallam University

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