Statistics : a gentle introduction / Frederick L. Coolidge.
This book explains the concepts of statistics in plain language first, before addressing the math. Each formula within the text has a step-by-step example to demonstrate the calculation so students can follow along. Only those formulas that are important for final calculations are included in the te...
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SAGE Publications, Inc,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- A gentle introduction
- Descriptive statistics: understanding distributions of numbers
- Statistical parameters: measures of central tendency and variation
- Standard scores, the z distribution, and hypothesis testing
- Inferential statistics: the controlled experiment, hypothesis testing, and the z distribution
- An introduction to correlation and regression
- The t test for independent groups
- The t test for dependent groups
- Analysis of Variance (ANOVA): one-factor completely randomized design
- After a significant ANOVA: multiple comparison tests
- Analysis of Variance (ANOVA): one-factor repeated-measures design
- Factorial ANOVA: two-factor completely randomized design
- Post hoc analysis of factorial ANOVA
- Factorial ANOVA: additional designs
- Nonparametric statistics: the chi-square test and other nonparametric tests
- Other statistical topics, parameters, and tests.