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Summary: This book would prove to be an indispensable guide for students of psychology and other subjects under the domain of social sciences.Feature Highlights: Lucid explanation aided by step-by-step demonstration of the use of statistical toolsSpecial emphasis on schematic representation of layouts of ANVOASpecial inclusion of chapter on psychological test constructionEach chapter aided by review questions and practice problemsCovers the course requirement of major Indian universitiesThree complementary chapters available online Table of contents PrefaceBasic Ideas in StatisticsPresentation of DataMeasures of Central TendencyMeasures of VariabilityPercentiles and Percentile RankProbability, Binomial and Poisson DistributionStandard Scores and the Normal Probability CurveTesting of HypothesisCorrelationRegressionSignificance of the Mean and Other StatisticsSignificance of the Difference between Means and other.

Contents:

Basic ideas in statistics
Presentation of data
Measures of central tendency
Measures of variability
Percentiles and percentile rank
Probability, binomial and Poisson distributions
Standard scores and the normal probability curve
Testing of hypothesis
Correlation
Regression
Significance of the mean and other statistics
Significance of the difference between means and other statistics
Experimental design: an introduction
Analysis of variance (independent measures)
Analysis of variance (repeated measures)
Non-parametric statistics
Some other non-parametric statistical tests
Psychological test construction