Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Book

	Contents
	Preface to the Instructor
	Introduction to the Student
1	Displaying the Order in a Group of Numbers	1
2	The Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, and Z Scores	21
3	Correlation and Prediction	42
4	Some Key Ingredients for Inferential Statistics: The Normal Curve, Probability, and Population Versus Sample	72
5	Introduction to Hypothesis Testing	91
6	Hypothesis Tests With Means of Samples	108
7	Making Sense of Statistical Significance: Decision Error, Statistical Power, and Effect Size	126
8	Introduction to the t Test	152
9	The t Test for Independent Means	178
10	Introduction to the Analysis of Variance	199
11	Chi-Square Tests and Strategies When Population Distributions Are Not Normal	231
12	Making Sense of Advanced Statistical Procedures in Research Articles	265
	Appendix: Tables	289
	Answers to Selected Practice Problems	297
	Glossary	311
	Glossary of Symbols	319
	References	321
	Index	325