Statistics for the Terrified

John H. Kranzler is professor and director of the school psychology program in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, & Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. He earned his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1990 and has taught classes in school psychology, learning and cognition, measurement and evaluation, theories of intelligence, psychoeducational assessment, statistics, law & ethics in psychology, and individual differences. His main area of scholarly interest concerns the nature, development, and assessment of human cognitive abilities. Christopher J. Anthony is an assistant professor of school psychology at the University of Florida. He received his PhD in 2016 from the Pennsylvania State University, was on the faculty of the school psychology program at Oklahoma State University from 2016 to 2018, and began at the University of Florida in 2018. His scholarship seeks to better assess and understand these factors to support their integration into school-based programming and promote the comprehensive development of all children.

SECTION I: Essentials for Statistics
Chapter 1. Effective Strategies for Studying Statistics
Chapter 2. Overcoming Math Anxiety
Chapter 3. Basic Math Concepts
SECTION II: Describing Univariate Data
Chapter 4. Frequency Distributions
Chapter 5. Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 6. The Normal Curve
Chapter 7. Percentiles and Standard Scores
SECTION III: Correlation Coefficients and Linear Regression
Chapter 8. Correlation Coefficients
Chapter 9. Linear Regression
SECTION IV: Inferential Statistics
Chapter 10. Introduction to Inferential Statistics
Chapter 11. The t Test
Chapter 12. Analysis of Variance
SECTION V: Additional Topics: Nonparametric Statistics and Using Statistical Software Programs
Chapter 13. Nonparametric Statistics: Chi-Square
Chapter 14. How to Use SPSS
Chapter 15. Postscript

APPENDICES
A. Proportions of Area under the Normal Curve
B. Critical Values of t
C. Critical Values of F
D. Critical Values of Chi-Squared
E. Glossary of Formulas