Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4129-8744-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 709 g

Designed to engage students and lower their "fear factor", Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences is a concise, user-friendly text that prepares students to use statistics in the real world. Providing depth and breadth of statistical tests, the text focuses on choosing the appropriate statistical analysis, and shows how to interpret the output and present the results.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ha, Renee R.

Ha, James C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Descriptive Statistics
1. Introduction to Statistics: What Are You Getting Into?
2. Getting Started With Statistics
3. Frequency Distributions and Graphing
4. The Mean and Standard Deviation
5. The Normal Distribution, Standardized Scores, and Probability
Part II. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
6. Sampling Distribution of the Mean and the Single-Sample z Statistic
7. Inferential Statistics
8. Single-Sample Tests
9. Two-Sample Tests
Part III. Additional Hypothesis Tests
10. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
11. Complex ANOVA Designs
12. Correlation and Regression
13. General Linear Model
14. Nonparametric Tests
15. Review
Homework Answers
Appendix: Statistical Tables
Glossary
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ha, Renee R.
Dr. Renee Ha received her Ph.D. in Psychology with a
specialization in animal behavior from the University of Washington in
1999.  She is currently on the faculty of
the U.W. Department of Psychology.  She
has taught courses on statistics, introductory psychology, human development,
and various animal behavior courses.  She
received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Psychology Department in
1999.  Her research interests primarily
involve wild birds, including social behavior, foraging, and conservation.

Ha, James C.
Dr. James Ha has a 1989 Ph.D.
in Zoology/Animal Behavior from Colorado
State University
and has been on the faculty of the University
of Washington since 1992,
where he is a Research Associate Professor in the Psychology Department (Animal
Behavior Area).  He consults extensively
in statistics at U.W. and around the world, while his own research examines the
social behavior of Old World monkeys and their management in captivity, Pacific Northwest killer whales, local and Pacific island
crows, and domestic dogs.  He has served
as a member of the Animal Behavior Society’s Executive Committee in several
capacities.  He is also certified as a
Full-level Applied Animal Behaviorist and has his own private practice,
Companion Animal Solutions, which deals with behavior problems of dogs, cats,
and parrots in the Puget Sound area.  He also advises attorneys as an expert legal
witness in animal behavior.  He travels
extensively and speaks on the topics of his research, especially facets of
social behavior in both wild and domestic animals, as well as on the treatment
of behavior issues in companion animals.