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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813227103321

Autore

Smithson Michael

Titolo

Statistics with confidence / / Michael Smithson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2000

ISBN

0-7619-6030-9

0-585-38674-9

1-282-02052-8

9786612020520

1-84920-273-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 446 p.) : ill

Collana

SAGE foundations of psychology series

Disciplina

150.15195

Soggetti

Psychometrics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

11 Putting Statistics into PerspectiveReferences; Answers to Selected Questions and Exercises; Appendix - Statistical Tables; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.