How to Use This Study Guide
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
6. Probability, Normal Distributions, and z Scores
7. Probability and Sampling Distributions
PART III. MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT ONE OR TWO MEANS
8. Hypothesis Testing: Significance, Effect Size, and Power
9. Testing Means: One-Sample and Two-Independent-Sample t Tests
10. Testing Means: The Related-Samples t Test
11. Estimation and Confidence Intervals
PART IV. MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT THE VARIABILITY OF TWO OR MORE MEANS
12. Analysis of Variance: One-Way Between-Subjects Design
13. Analysis of Variance: One-Way Within-Subjects (Repeated-Measures) Design
14. Analysis of Variance: Two-Way Between-Subjects Factorial Design
PART V. MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT PATTERNS, FREQUENCIES, AND ORDINAL DATA
15. Correlation
16. Linear Regression and Multiple Regression
17. Nonparametric Tests: Chi-Square Tests
18. Nonparametric Tests: Tests for Ordinal Data
Appendix: SPSS General Instructions Guide
Answers to Key Term Word Searches and Crossword Puzzles
Answers to Practice Quizzes
Statistical Tables
Decision Trees
References

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