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Study Guide for Psychology to Accompany Salkind and Frey's Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics
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Study Guide for Psychology to Accompany Salkind and Frey's Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

Seventh Edition


August 2019 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This Study Guide for introductory statistics courses in psychology departments is designed to accompany Neil J. Salkind and Bruce B. Frey’s best-selling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, Seventh Edition. Extra exercises; activities; and true/false, multiple choice, and essay questions (with answers to all questions) feature psychology-specific content to help further student mastery of text concepts. Two additional appendix items in this guide include: Practice with Real Data!, which outlines four experiments and provides students with the datasets to run the analyses (at edge.sagepub.com/salkindfrey7e), plus Writing Up Your Results – Guidelines based on APA style.

 
Chapter 1. Statistics or Sadistics? It’s Up to You
 
Chapter 2. Computing and Understanding Averages: Means to an End
 
Chapter 3. Understanding Variability: Vivé la Différence
 
Chapter 4. Creating Graphs: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words
 
Chapter 5. Computing Correlation Coefficients: Ice Cream and Crime
 
Chapter 6. An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity: Just the Truth
 
Chapter 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions
 
Chapter 8. Probability and Why it Counts: Fun with a Bell-Shaped Curve
 
Chapter 9. Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me
 
Chapter 10. The One-Sample z-Test: Only the Lonely
 
Chapter 11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups
 
Chapter 12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups
 
Chapter 13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance
 
Chapter 14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance—A Brief Introduction
 
Chapter 15. Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient: Cousins or Just Good Friends?
 
Chapter 16. Using Linear Regression: Predicting the Future
 
Chapter 17. Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests: What to Do When You’re Not Normal
 
Chapter 18. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About
 
Chapter 19. Data Mining: An Introduction to Getting the Most Out of Your BIG Data
 
Appendix A. Practice With Real Data!
 
Appendix B. Writing Up Your Results—Guidelines Based on APA Style

Sample Materials & Chapters

1. Statistics or Sadistics? It’s Up to You


Neil Joseph Salkind

Neil J. Salkind received his PhD in human development from the University of Maryland, and after teaching for 35 years at the University of Kansas, he was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education, where he collaborated with colleagues and work with students. His early interests were in the area of children’s cognitive development, and after research in the areas of cognitive style and (what was then known as) hyperactivity, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina’s Bush Center for Child and Family Policy. His work then changed direction to focus on child and family policy,... More About Author

Bruce B. Frey

Bruce B. Frey, PhD, is an award-winning teacher and scholar at the University of Kansas. He has authored more than 100 research articles and papers. Among his books are the best-selling textbook, Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, Modern Classroom Assessment, and There’s a Stat for That!, all published by SAGE, and Stat Hacks published by O’Reilly. He is the editor of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation. In his free time, he celebrates bubblegum pop music of the late 1960s on his popular podcast, Echo Valley. More About Author

Ryan Jeffrey Winter

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