The Student Study Guide With IBM® SPSS® Workbook for Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition includes a review of chapter learning objectives, chapter outlines and key terms, essential statistical formulas, special tips and insights for students, and chapter summaries. To help students practice skills, the guide offers word searches and crossword puzzles for each chapter, extensive practice quizzes linked to chapter learning objectives, and ‘SPSS in Focus’ exercises which complement those in the core text.
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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, 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: The 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
Appendix: General Instruction Guide for Using SPSS
Answers to Practice Quizzes
Statistical Tables
Decision Trees
References
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Gregory J. Privitera is a professor of psychology at St. Bonaventure University where he is a recipient of its highest teaching honor, The Award for Professional Excellence in Teaching, and its highest honor for scholarship, The Award for Professional Excellence in Research and Publication. Dr. Privitera received his Ph D in behavioral neuroscience in the field of psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo and continued with his postdoctoral research at Arizona State University. He is a nationally award-winning author and research scholar. His textbooks span across diverse topics in psychology and the behavioral sciences, including an introductory psychology text, four statistics texts, two research methods texts, and multiple other texts bridging knowledge creation across health, health care, and analytics. In addition, Dr. Privitera has authored more than three dozen peer-reviewed papers aimed at advancing our understanding of health and informing policy in health care. His research has earned recognition by the American Psychological Association, and in media to include Oprah’s Magazine, Time Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. He mentors a variety of undergraduate research projects at St. Bonaventure University, where dozens of students, many of whom have gone on to earn graduate and doctoral degrees at various institutions, have coauthored and presented research work. In addition to his teaching, research, and advisement, Dr. Privitera is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, is an identical twin, and is married with two daughters, Grace Ann and Charlotte Jane, and two sons, Aiden Andrew and Luca James.
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