Explaining Psychological Statistics

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<p><b>A clear and accessible statistics text now fully updated and revised</b></p><p>Now with a new chapter showing students how to apply the right test in the right way to yield the most accurate and true result,<i>Explaining Psychological Statistics,</i> Fourth Edition offers students an engaging introduction to the field. Presenting the material in a logically flowing, non-intimidating way, this comprehensive text covers both introductory and advanced topics in statistics, from the basic concepts (and limitations) of null hypothesis testing to mixed-design ANOVA and multiple regression.</p><p>The<i>Fourth Edition</i> covers:</p><ul><li>Basic statistical procedures</li><li>Frequency tables, graphs, and distributions</li><li>Measures of central tendency and variability</li><li>One- and two-sample hypothesis tests</li><li>Hypothesis testing</li><li>Interval estimation and the t distribution</li></ul>

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<p><b>BARRY H. COHEN, PhD,</b> is a clinical associate professor in the department of psychology at New York University, where he has been teaching statistics for more than twenty-five years. He is the coauthor of two other successful statistics books from Wiley:<i>Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences,</i> Seventh Edition and<i>Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences</i>.</p>

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