Mark Forshaw (UK Staffordshire University)

Easy Statistics in Psychology

A BPS Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Designed for those approaching this subject for the first time, Easy Statistics in Psychology is a short, readable guide to the ideas behind statistical formulae and the benefits that a rigorous statistical approach brings to psychological research. Packed with useful analogies, it helps students get beyond the numbers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9781405139571
• ISBN-10: 1405139579
• Artikelnr.: 21797903

Autorenporträt

Mark Forshaw is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at Staffordshire University. He is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is the author of Your Undergraduate Psychology Project: A BPS Guide (BPS Blackwell, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgement xi
1 An Introduction to Measuring Things 1
2 Variance and More 11
3 Probability, Power and Error 23
4 First Steps in Inferential Testing 43
5 Analysis of Variance 51
6 Correlation and Regression 71
7 Factor Analysis 75
8 Goodness of Fit and Chi-Squared 101
9 Non-parametric Tests 111
10 Rarely Used Tests in the Seedy Underbelly of Statistics 115
References 125
Further Reading 127
Index 129

Rezensionen

"The book achieves a great deal in a short space, and I am sure many readers will find it extremely useful.... This is an unusual and generally well-written book that will be valuable for those who want their statistical understanding to come from words rather than numbers or mathematics." (Psychology Learning and Teaching, Autumn 2008)"This text speaks statistics in a psychologist's language. Itavoids mathematical rigour and equations and eases the reader intothe unfamiliar territory of statistical methodology with the morefamiliar map of a relaxed conversational style. This approachshould be particularly appealing for people from a non-numeratebackground who are interested in exploring the potential of whatstatistics can do to help them understand their data."
-Peter Watson, University of Cambridge

"Many psychology students are scared of statistics. In EasyStatistics in Psychology Mark Forshaw attempts to demystify themost common and useful statistics in psychology and make themaccessible and perhaps even cuddly. Mark has taught statistics tomany undergraduates and it shows, particularly in his use ofhelpful analogies and his insight into the common, but rarelydiscussed, errors students make in data entry and in interpretationof the complex output from statistical packages. This book nicelycomplements other more advanced or technical texts. Most psychologyundergraduates will find it helpful; for some it may be a Godsend."
-Derek Johnston, Professor in Psychology,University of Aberdeen