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| About the book |
Praise for the first edition: "An excellent textbook which is well planned, well written, and pitched at the correct level for psychology students. I would not hesitate to recommend Greene and d'Oliveira to all psychology students looking for an introductory text on statistical methodology." Bulletin of the British Psychological Society Learning to Use Statistical Tests in Psychology third edition has been updated throughout. It continues to be a key text in helping students to understand and conduct statistical tests in psychology without panic! It takes students from the most basic elements of statistics teaching them:
The new edition is divided into four discrete sections and within this structure each test covered is illustrated through a chapter of its own. The sections cover:
Presented in a student-friendly textbook format, Learning to Use Psychological Tests in Psychology enables readers to select and use the most appropriate statistical tests to evaluate the significance of data obtained from psychological experiments. An errata sheet detailing the Decision Chart which is referred to can be downloaded by clicking here |
| About the authors |
Judith Greene was previously Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Open University. Manuela D'Oliveira is presently teaching in Portugal - she teaches at the university in Porto and also in Lisbon. |
| Table of contents |
Preface to the third edition Study guide for students Acknowledgements Part I Introduction 1 Research in psychology 2 Experiments in psychology 3 Selecting statistical tests 4 Using statistical tests Part II Statistical tests for experiments 5 Introduction to non-parametric tests 6 Wilcoxin test (related) 7 Mann-Whitney test (unrelated) 8 Introduction to parametric t tests 9 t test (related) 10 t test (unrelated) 11 Friedman test (related) 12 Kruskal-Wallis (unrelated) Part III Analysis of Variance 13 Introduction to ANOVA 14 One-way ANOVA (unrelated) 15 One-way ANOVA (related) 16 Comparisons between ANOVA conditions 17 Introduction to two-way ANOVA 18 Two-way ANOVA (unrelated) 19 Two-way ANOVA (related) Part IV Relationships between variables 20 Chi square 21 Pearson product moment correlation 22 Introduction to simple linear regression 23 Multiple regression 24 General Linear Model Answers to questions Recommended reading References Statistical tables Decision Chart: inside back cover |
