Psychology Statistics For Dummies

The introduction to statistics that psychology students can't afford to be withoutunderstanding statistics is a requirement for obtaining and making the most of a degree in psychology, a fact of life that often takes first year psychology students by surprise. filled with jargon-free explanations and real-life examples, psychology statistics for dummies makes the often-confusing world of statistics a lot less baffling, and provides you with the step-by-step instructions necessary for carrying out data analysis.psychology statistics for dummies:serves as an easily accessible supplement to doorstop-sized psychology textbooksprovides psychology students with psychology-specific statistics instructionincludes clear explanations and instruction on performing statistical analysisteaches students how to analyze their data with spss, the most widely used statistical packages among students from the inside flap learn to: use spss to analyse datamaster statistical methods and procedures using psychology-based explanations and examplescreate better reportsidentify key concepts and pass your coursethe quick, easy way to master all the statistics you'll ever need the bad news first: if you want a psychology degree you'll need to know statistics. now for the good news: psychology statistics for dummies. featuring jargon-free explanations, step-by-step instructions and dozens of real-life examples, psychology statistics for dummies makes the knotty world of statistics a lot less baffling. rather than padding the text with concepts and procedures irrelevant to the task, the authors focus only on the statistics psychology students need to know. as an alternative to typical, lead-heavy statistics texts or supplements to assigned course reading, this is one book psychology students won't want to be without. ease into statistics – start out with an introduction to how statistics are used by psychologists, including the types of variables they use and how they measure themget your feet wet – quickly learn the basics of descriptive statistics, such as central tendency and measures of dispersion, along with common ways of graphically depicting informationmeet your new best friend – learn the ins and outs of spss, the most popular statistics software package among psychology students, including how to input, manipulate and analyse dataanalyse this – get up to speed on statistical analysis core concepts, such as probability and inference, hypothesis testing, distributions, z-scores and effect sizescorrelate that – get the lowdown on common procedures for defining relationships between variables, including linear regressions, associations between categorical data and moreanalyse by inference – master key methods in inferential statistics, including techniques for analysing independent groups designs and repeated-measures research designsopen the book and find: ways to describe statistical datahow to use spss statistical softwareprobability theory and statistical inferencedescriptive statistics basicshow to test hypothesescorrelations and other relationships between variablescore concepts in statistical analysis for psychologyanalysing research designs from the back cover learn to: use spss to analyse datamaster statistical methods and procedures using psychology-based explanations and examplescreate better reportsidentify key concepts and pass your coursethe quick, easy way to master all the statistics you'll ever need the bad news first: if you want a psychology degree you'll need to know statistics. now for the good news: psychology statistics for dummies. featuring jargon-free explanations, step-by-step instructions and dozens of real-life examples, psychology statistics for dummies makes the knotty world of statistics a lot less baffling. rather than padding the text with concepts and procedures irrelevant to the task, the authors focus only on the statisti