Table of Contents
1 Cover
3 Preface WHY IS THIS BOOK NEEDED? WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? LEVEL AND PRE‐REQUISITE AIMS AND SCOPE CONTENTS ONLINE TEACHING TOOLS
6 PART 1: SETTING THE STATISTICAL SCENE CHAPTER 1: The Scientific Method 1.1 KNOWING THINGS 1.2 LOGIC 1.3 EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH DESIGN 1.4 THE BASICS OF RESEARCH DESIGN 1.5 NEXT STEPS 1.6 RESEARCH DESIGN 1.7 DATA, RESULTS, AND PRESENTATION 1.8 READING 1.9 EXERCISES REFERENCES CHAPTER 2: Populations and Samples 2.1 DEFINING POPULATIONS AND SAMPLES 2.2 MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY 2.3 WEIGHTING AND WEIGHTED AVERAGES 2.4 MEASURES OF VARIATION: RANGE, QUANTILES, AND THE STANDARD DEVIATION 2.5 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SAMPLES AND POPULATIONS 2.6 BE PATIENT AND DON’T GIVE UP 2.7 GLOSSARY 2.8 EXERCISES CHAPTER 3: Principles of Measurement 3.1 INTRODUCTION 3.2 TYPES OF RESEARCH 3.3 TYPES OF MEASUREMENT 3.4 MEASUREMENT SCALES 3.5 RELIABILITY, VALIDITY, AND ERROR 3.6 BIAS AND GENERALIZABILITY 3.7 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 3.8 CONCLUSION 3.9 EXERCISES REFERENCES CHAPTER 4: Probability and Types of Distribution 4.1 INTRODUCTION 4.2 TYPES OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION 4.3 SAMPLING ERROR 4.4 TRANSFORMATIONS 4.5 EXERCISES REFERENCES CHAPTER 5: Confidence Intervals and Significance Testing 5.1 INTRODUCTION 5.2 CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AND CONFIDENCE LIMITS 5.3 LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE 5.4 A TEST STATISTIC 5.5 EXERCISES REFERENCE
7 PART 2: STATISTICAL TESTS CHAPTER 6: Two Sample Comparisons for Normal Distributions: The t‐test 6.1 INTRODUCTION 6.2 PAIRED t‐TEST 6.3 UNPAIRED t‐TEST 6.4 EXERCISES CHAPTER 7: Nonparametric Two‐Sample Tests 7.1 INTRODUCTION 7.2 UNPAIRED NONNORMAL DATA: THE MANN–WHITNEY TEST 7.3 WILCOXON SIGNED‐RANK TEST 7.4 WILCOXON SIGN TEST 7.5 SPSS 7.6 EXERCISES REFERENCE CHAPTER 8: Contingency Tables, Chi‐Squared Test, and Fisher's Exact Test 8.1 INTRODUCTION 8.2 THE FOUR‐FOLD OR 2 × 2 CONTINGENCY TABLE 8.3 p × q TABLES