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050 4 _aBF121
245 0 3 _aAn Introduction to Psychological Statistics
_cGarett Foster
264 2 _bOpen Textbook Library
264 1 _bUniversity of Missouri - St. Louis
300 _a1 online resource
490 0 _aOpen textbook library.
505 0 _aPrologue: A letter to my students -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Describing Data using Distributions and Graphs -- Chapter 3: Measures of Central Tendency and Spread -- Chapter 4: z-score and the Standard Normal Distribution -- Chapter 5: Probability -- Chapter 6: Sampling Distributions -- Chapter 7: Introduction to Hypothesis Testing -- Chapter 8: Introduction to t-tests -- Chapter 9: Repeated Measures -- Chapter 10: Independent Samples -- Chapter 11: Analysis of Variance -- Chapter 12: Correlations -- Chapter 13: Linear Regression -- Chapter 14: Chi-square -- Epilogue: A Brave New World
520 0 _aWe are constantly bombarded by information, and finding a way to filter that information in an objective way is crucial to surviving this onslaught with your sanity intact. This is what statistics, and logic we use in it, enables us to do. Through the lens of statistics, we learn to find the signal hidden in the noise when it is there and to know when an apparent trend or pattern is really just randomness. The study of statistics involves math and relies upon calculations of numbers. But it also relies heavily on how the numbers are chosen and how the statistics are interpreted.
542 1 _fAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource
650 0 _aPsychology
_vTextbooks
700 1 _aFoster, Garett C.
_eauthor
700 1 _aLane, David
_eauthor
700 1 _aScott, David
_eauthor
700 1 _aHebl, Mikki
_eauthor
700 1 _aGuerra, Rudy
_eauthor
700 1 _aOsherson, Dan
_eauthor
700 1 _aZimmer, Heidi
_eauthor
710 2 _aOpen Textbook Library
_edistributor
856 4 0 _uhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/709
_zAccess online version
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