Using and Interpreting Statistics - Eric W. Corty

Using and Interpreting Statistics

A Practical Text for the Health, Behavioral, and Social Sciences

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Buch | Softcover
608 Seiten
2006
Mosby (Verlag)
978-0-323-03593-4 (ISBN)
59,95 inkl. MwSt
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Serves as an introductory text for a statistics course for the health, behavioral, or social sciences. This text contains learning aids that include a chapter-opening Chapter Roadmap, Group Practice exercises interspersed throughout the chapters, Review Exercises and Homework Problems at the end of each chapter, and more.
"Using and Interpreting Statistics" is a uniquely engaging and easy-to-understand introductory text for a statistics course for the health, behavioral, or social sciences. Written by an award-winning master teacher, this full-color text the only full-color statistics text on the market covers all the essential topics needed for an introductory statistics course in an engaging, reader-friendly style. It uses a variety of memorable examples not only from the health, behavioral, and social sciences, but from everyday life, to help drive home important topics. In addition, a unique collection of learning aids helps students not just learn the content but actually enjoy the reading and apply it to their course of study. Learning aids include a chapter-opening Chapter Roadmap, Group Practice exercises interspersed throughout the chapters, Review Exercises and Homework Problems at the end of each chapter, and a unique Tom and Harry mnemonic that helps students to routinize statistical decision-making.

1.Introduction to Statistics: Purpose, Measurement, Terminology, and Rounding 2.Tables and Graphs 3.Transformed Scores I: Percentile Ranks 4.Descriptive Statistics: Measuring Central Tendency and Variability 5.Transformed Scores II: Standard Scores and the Normal Distribution 6.Sampling and Confidence Intervals 7.Relationship Tests and Hypothesis Testing: The Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient 8.Interpreting Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficients 9.Two-Sample Difference Tests: The Independent-Samples t Test 10.Multiple-Sample Difference Tests I: One-Way Analysis of Variance 11.Multiple-Sample Difference Tests II: Factorial and Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance 12.The Chi-Square Test for Contingency Tables 13.What Test When: Choosing the Appropriate Statistical Test Appendices Answers to Review Questions Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.10.2006
Zusatzinfo Approx. 150 illustrations
Verlagsort St Louis
Sprache englisch
Maße 191 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10 0-323-03593-0 / 0323035930
ISBN-13 978-0-323-03593-4 / 9780323035934
Zustand Neuware
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