Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Gregory J. Privitera

Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences is a concise version of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences by award-winning teacher, author, and advisor Gregory J. Privitera. The Second Edition provides balanced coverage for today's students, connecting the relevance of core concepts to daily life with new introductory vignettes for every chapter, while speaking to the reader as a researcher when covering statistical theory, computation, and application. Robust pedagogy allows students to continually check their comprehension and hone their skills while working through carefully developed problems and exercises that include current research and seamless integration of IBM® SPSS® Statistics. Readers will welcome Privitera's thoughtful instruction, conversational voice, and application of statistics to real-world problems.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Publisher Note
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface to the Instructor
• To the Student—How to Use SPSS With This Book
• Part I Introduction and Descriptive Statistics
• 1 Introduction to Statistics
• 2 Summarizing Data Frequency Distributions in Tables and Graphs
• 3 Summarizing Data Central Tendency
• 4 Summarizing Data Variability
• Part II Probability and the Foundations of Inferential Statistics
• 5 Probability, Normal Distributions, and z Scores
• 6 Characteristics of the Sample Mean
• 7 Hypothesis Testing Significance, Effect Size, and Power
• Part III Making Inferences About One or Two Means
• 8 Testing Means One-Sample t Test With Confidence Intervals
• 9 Testing Means Two-Independent-Sample t Test With Confidence Intervals
• 10 Testing Means Related-Samples t Test With Confidence Intervals
• Part IV Making Inferences About the Variability of Two or More Means
• 11 One-Way Analysis of Variance Between-Subjects and Within-Subjects (Repeated-Measures) Designs
• 12 Two-Way Analysis of Variance Between-Subjects Factorial Design
• Part V Making Inferences About Patterns, Prediction, and Nonparametric Tests
• 13 Correlation and Linear Regression
• 14 Chi-Square Tests Goodness of Fit and the Test for Independence
• Afterword
• Appendix A Basic Math Review and Summation Notation
• Appendix B SPSS General Instructions Guide
• Appendix C Statistical Tables
• Appendix D Solutions for Even-Numbered Problems
• Glossary
• References
• Index