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Urdan, Timothy C.

Statistics in plain English / Timothy C. Urdan. - 3rd ed. - New York : Routledge, ©2010. - xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to social science research and terminology -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of variability -- The normal distribution -- Standardization and z scores -- Standard errors -- Statistical significance, effect size, and confidence intervals -- Correlation -- t tests -- One-way analysis of variance -- Factorial analysis of variance -- Repeated-measures analysis of variance -- Regression -- The Chi-square test of independence -- Factor analysis and reliability analysis: data reduction techniques -- Appendix A: Area under the normal curve beyond z -- Appendix B: Critical values of the t distributions -- Appendix C: Critical values of the F distributions -- Appendix D: Critical values of the studentized range statistic (for the Tukey HSD Test) -- Appendix E: Critical values of the [Chi superscript] Chi-square distributions.

ISBN: 9780415872911

LCCN: 2010000438

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB004152 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015461972 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Statistics--Textbooks.
Statistics.
Statistik--Lehrmittel.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Textbooks.

LC Class. No.: QA276.12 / .U75 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 519.5