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Stephens, Larry. Schaum's Outline of Statistics in Psychology. US: McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Schaum's Outline of Statistics in Psychology

Authors: Larry Stephens

Published:  November 2008

eISBN: 9780071546003 0071546006 | ISBN: 9780071545990
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  • Contents
  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Statistics in Psychology
  • Introduction
  • Population and Sample
  • Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
  • Scales of Measurement
  • Discrete and Continuous Variables
  • Statistical Notation
  • Statistical Software
  • Chapter 2 Graphing Quantitative and Qualitative Data
  • Frequency Distribution Tables
  • Frequency Distribution Graphs
  • Shape of a Frequency Distribution
  • Percentiles and Quartiles
  • Graphing Quantitative Data
  • Dot Plots
  • Stem-and-Leaf Displays
  • Histograms
  • Box Plots
  • Graphing Qualitative Data
  • Pie Charts and Bar Charts
  • Chapter 3 Central Tendency
  • Mean
  • Median
  • Mode
  • Choosing the Correct Measure of Central Tendency
  • Central Tendency Measures and Their Relationship to the Shape of the Distribution
  • Measures of Central Tendency and Statistical Software
  • Chapter 4 Variability
  • Range
  • Variance and Standard Deviation of Samples and Populations
  • Alternate Formula for Variance and Standard Deviation
  • Properties of the Variance and the Standard Deviation
  • Interquartile and Semi-Interquartile Range
  • Mean Deviation
  • Comparing Measures of Variability
  • Measures of Variability and Statistical Software
  • Chapter 5 Z-Scores
  • Z-Scores
  • What Effect Does Transforming the Raw Scores to Z-Scores Have on the Shape of the Distribution?
  • Mean and Standard Deviation of the Z-Scores
  • Converting Z-Scores to Raw Scores
  • Converting a Distribution with Mean = M[sub(1)] and Standard Deviation = σ[sub(1)] to a Distribution Having Mean = M[sub(2)] and Standard Deviation = σ[sub(2)]
  • Chapter 6 Elementary Probability
  • Experiment, Sample Space, Events, and Probability
  • The Additive Rule and Mutually Exclusive Events
  • The Multiplicative Rule and Independent Events
  • Probability and the Binomial Distribution
  • Using Excel to Find Binomial Probabilities
  • Probability and the Normal Distribution Using EXCEL
  • Using a Table of the Normal Distribution
  • Chapter 7 The Distribution of Sample Means
  • Population Distribution, Population Mean, Population Variance, and Population Standard Deviation
  • The Distribution of Sample Means
  • Sample Mean Distribution, Mean of the Sample Mean, and Variance of the Sample Mean
  • Standard Error of the Mean
  • The Central Limit Theorem (Putting It All Together)
  • Chapter 8 Introduction to Hypothesis Testing and the z-Test Statistic
  • Research Problems in Psychology
  • Null Hypothesis (H[sub(0)]) and Alternative Hypothesis (H[sub(1)])
  • Reaching a Decision
  • Type 1 and Type 2 Errors
  • One- and Two-Tailed Tests
  • Summarizing the z-Test for Testing Hypotheses
  • An Alternative Method of Testing Hypothesis
  • Using Software to Perform the z-Test
  • Chapter 9 The t-Test Statistic and the t-Test
  • Introduction to the t-Distribution
  • The Relationship between the z- and t-Distributions
  • Areas under the t-Distribution
  • t-Test Using SPSS
  • What Is the Meaning of a Confidence Interval?
  • Chapter 10 The t-Test for Two Independent Samples
  • Introduction
  • Independent Samples Versus Related Samples
  • The t-Test for Independent Samples Worked by Hand
  • SPSS and the t-Test for Independent Samples
  • Chapter 11 The t-Test for Two Related Samples
  • Two Related Samples
  • The t-Test for the Repeated Measures Design Worked by Hand
  • SPSS and the Paired t-Test for Repeated Measures
  • The t-Test for the Matched Pairs Design Worked by Hand
  • SPSS and the t-Test for Matched Pairs
  • Answers to Supplementary Problems
  • Index