Statistics with confidence [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Smithson

• Autore: Smithson Michael
• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (461 p.)
• Disciplina: 150.15195; 150.727
• Soggetto topico: Psychometrics; Psychology - Statistical methods
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Statistics with confidence
• ISBN: 0-7619-6030-9; 0-585-38674-9; 1-282-02052-8; 9786612020520; 1-84920-273-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454552103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sage foundations of psychology series.