Statistics for Research (eBook)

PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
Variables and Their Measurement
Setting up an SPSS Data File
PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: GRAPHS AND TABLES
The Graphical Description of Data
The tabular Description of Data
Using Tables to Investigate the Relationship between Variables: Crosstabulations
Measures of Association for Crosstabulations: Nominal Data
Measures of Association for Crosstabulations: Ranked Data
Multivariate Analysis of Crosstabs: Elaboration
PART THREE: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: NUMERICAL MEASURES
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Dispersion
The Normal Curve
Correlation and Regression
Multiple Regression
PART FOUR: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TESTS FOR A MEAN
Sampling Distributions
Introduction to Hypothesis Testing and the One Sample z-Test for a Mean
The One Sample t-Test for a Mean
Inference Using Estimation and Confidence Intervals
The Two Samples t-Test for the Equality of Means
The f-Test for the Equality of More Than Two Means: Analysis of Variance
The Two Dependent Samples t-Test for the Mean Difference
PART FIVE: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TESTS FOR FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS
One Sample Tests for a Binomial Distribution
One Sample Tests for a Multinomial Distribution
The Chi-Square Test for Independence
Frequency Tests for Two Dependent Samples
PART SIX: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: OTHER TESTS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Rank-Order Tests for Two or More Samples
The t-Test for a Correlation Coefficient
PART SEVEN: ADVANCED TOPICS
Statistical Power
Generating New Variables in SPSS: The Recode, Compute and Multiple Response Commands