Statistics with confidence / Michael Smithson
- Author
- Smithson, Michael
- Published
- London : Sage, 2000.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 446 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Uncertainty and Psychological Research; 2 Variables and Measurement; 3 Exploring, Describing, Displaying and Summarizing; 4 Research Design and Probability; 5 Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals; 6 Statistical Models and Significance Tests; 7 Predicting a Quantitiave Variable from a Categorical Variable: The t-Test and Analysis of Variance; 8 Quantitative Predictors: Regression and Correlation; 9 Predicting Categorical Variables: Contingency Tables and Chi-Square; 10 More than Two Variables: A Peek at Multivariate Analysis and 11 Putting Statistics into PerspectiveReferences; Answers to Selected Questions and Exercises; Appendix -- Statistical Tables; Index
- Summary
- In a new approach, Michael Smithson corrects some widely acknowledged problems associated with traditional approaches to psychometrics in the psychology setting. The author assumes the reader has a basic understanding of statistics.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0585386749 (electronic bk.)
9780585386744 (electronic bk.)
9781446218525 (ebook)
144621852X (ebook)
1282020528
9781282020528
9786612020520
6612020520
1849202737
9781849202732
9780761960300
0761960309
0761960317 (pbk.)
9780761960317 (pbk.) - Digital File Characteristics
- text file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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