Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences. An Introduction
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Author(s): R. Russo
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1841693200
Format: softback
242pp
Price: £9.95
Review Date: 01 October 2003
Review: This book introduces and explains statistical concepts and their applications to statistical techniques in a clear detailed way and provides a good understanding of statistics and the process of statistical hypothesis testing. It is a step-by-step introduction to the basic statistical techniques, with examples based on psychology studies that use them. There are chapters on: the main statistical techniques that are used to summarize and describe sets of data; statistical hypothesis-testing techniques; probability distributions and their use in the process of statistical hypothesis testing; using Pearson’s chi-square test in the analysis of categorical data; statistical hypothesis testing on the mean or pairs of means; nonparametric equivalents of the independent-samples and the matched-samples t-tests; calculating the simple linear regression equation; and power analysis to provide researchers with a tool aimed at reducing, when planning a research programme, the risk of failing to reject a null hypothesis when it should be rejected.