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Using and interpreting statistics : a practical text for the health, behavioral, and social sciences /

Corty, Eric, 1955-

Using and interpreting statistics : a practical text for the health, behavioral, and social sciences / Eric W. Corty. - St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby Elsevier, c2007. - xii, 596 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to statistics: purpose, measurement, terminology, and rounding -- Tables and graphs -- Transformed scores I: percentile ranks -- Descriptive statistics: measuring central tendency and variability -- Transformed scores II: standard scores and the normal distribution -- Sampling and confidence levels -- Relationship tests and hypothesis testing: the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient -- Interpreting Pearson product moment correlation coefficients -- Two-sample difference tests: the independent-samples t test -- Multi-sample difference tests I: one way analysis of variance -- Multi-sample difference tests II: factorial and repeated-measures analysis of variance -- The Chi-square test for contingency tables -- What test when: choosing the appropriate statistical test. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

0323035930 9780323035934

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Mathematical statistics--Textbooks.
Statistics--Textbooks.
Data Interpretation, Statistical.
Statistics--methods.

QA276.12 / .C675 2007

519.5