About the Book

The Fifth Edition of Statistical Reasoning reflects the changes that have occurred in the field of psychological statistics over the past decade. This revision has been made with an eye towards the statistics student, focusing on conceptual growth. The text develops an understanding of statistical logic and procedures, the properties of statistical devices, the importance of the assumptions underlying statistical tools, and an understanding of what happens with the strict requirements of statistical theory meet the circumstances of real-world data.

Content:

1. Introduction
2. Frequency Distributions, Percentiles and Percentile Ranks
3. Graphic Representation of Frequency Distributions
4. Central Tendency
5. Variability and Standard (z) Scores
6. Standard Scores and the Normal Curve
7. Correlation
8. Prediction
9. Interpretive Aspects of Correlation and Regression
10. Probability
11. Random Sampling and Sampling Distributions
12. Introduction to Statistical Inference: Testing Hypotheses about Single Means (z and t)
13. Interpreting the Results of Hypothesis Testing: Effect Size, Type I and Type II Errors, and Power
14. Testing Hypotheses about the Difference between two Independent Groups
15. Testing for a Difference between Two Dependent (Correlated) Groups
16. Inference about Correlation Coefficients
17. An Alternative to Hypothesis Testing: Confidence Intervals
18. Chi-Square and Inference about Frequencies
19. Testing for Differences among Three or More Groups: One-Way Analysis of Variance (and Some Alternatives)
20. Factorial Analysis of Variance: The Two-Factor Design for Independent Groups
21. Some (Almost) Assumption-Free Tests