Research Methods and Statistics: A Critical Thinking Approach Book

1	Thinking Like a Scientist	1
2	Getting Started: Defining, Measuring, and Manipulating Variables	25
3	Descriptive Methods	49
4	Data Organization and Descriptive Statistics	67
5	Correlational Methods and Statistics	99
6	Hypothesis Testing and Inferential Statistics	119
7	The Logic of Experimental Design	151
8	Inferential Statistics: Two-Group Designs	169
9	Experimental Designs With More Than Two Levels of an Independent Variable	191
10	Complex Experimental Design	221
11	Quasi-Experimental and Single-Case Designs	243
12	APA Guidelines: Ethics and Writing	261
	App. A: Statistical Tables	289
App. B	Computational Formulas for ANOVAs	313
	App. C: Answers to Odd-Numbered Chapter Exercises	315
App. D	Sample APA Style Paper	323
	References	341
	Glossary	343
	Index	351