 |  Behavioral Statistics in Action, 3/e Mark W. Vernoy,
Palomar College
Diana J. Kyle,
Fullerton College
Table of Contents
1. AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS / Features of the Book / Tips for Doing Well
in Statistics: How to Succeed in Statistics by Really Trying / A Note About Notation
and Rounding / Hypotheses / Variables / Scales of Measurement / Summary / Key
Terms / Problems / References
2. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS / Ranked Distributions / Frequency Distributions
/ Grouped Frequency Distributions / Apparent Limits and Real Limits: What You
See Versus What is Meant / Midpoint: The Center of the Class Interval / Visual
Summary: Creating a Group Frequency Distribution / Cumulative Frequency / Relative
Frequency and Cumulative Relative Frequency / Cumulative Percent / On the Internet:
Creating a Grouped Frequency Distribution / Summary / Key Terms / Formulas /
Problems
3. GRAPHS / Basics in Constructing a Graph / Frequency Histogram / Frequency
Polygon / Relative Frequency Polygon / Cumulative Frequency Polygon / Cumulative
Relative Frequency Polygon / Cumulative Percent Polygon / Stem and Leaf Diagrams
/ Changing the Shape of a Graph / Summary / Key Terms / Problems
4. MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY / The Mean / The Median / The Mode / Mean, Median,
or Mode: A Question of Skew / Summary / Key Terms / Formulas / Problems / Reference
5. MEASURES OF VARIABILITY / The Range / Mean Deviation / The Variance: The
Mean of the Squared Deviations / Standard Deviation: The Square Root of the
Variance / Computational Formulas / Calculating Variability from Grouped Frequency
Distributions / Summary / Key Terms / Formulas / Problems / Reference
6. SCALED SCORES AND STANDARD SCORES: HOW TO CHANGE APPLES INTO ORANGES / Scales
Scores / Adding or Subtracting a Constant: No change in Variability / Multiplying
or Dividing by a Constant: A Concurrent Change in Mean and Standard Deviation
/ Standard Scores (z Scores) / Summary / Key Terms / Formulas / Problems
7. THE NORMAL CURVE / Characteristics of the Normal Curve / Finding Proportions
and Percentages / Finding Percentiles / Summary / Key Terms / Formulas / Problems
8. CORRELATION / The Nature of Correlation / Types of Correlation: How Are Variables
Related? / Degree of Correlation: How Strongly Are Variables Related? / The
Correlation Coefficient / The Covariance / Computing the Correlation Coefficient
/ Computational Formulas for the Covariance and Correlation Coefficient / The
Significance of the Correlation Coefficient / Interpreting the Correlation Coefficient:
What do the Numbers Mean? / Using Table R / The Coefficient of Determination
/ Summary / Key Terms / Formulas / Problems / References
9. REGRESSION / Making Predictions via Linear Regression / The Regression Line:
Faster Predictions / The Standard Error of the Estimate Summary / Key Terms
/ Formulas / Problems
10. PROBABILITY THEORY AND SAMPLING / Probability Theory / Sampling / The Standard
Error of the Estimate / The Central Limit Theorem / The z Test / Summary / Key
Terms / Formulas / Problems
11. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN / Developing a Hypothesis / Identifying Variables /
Factors in Experimental Design / Important Aspects of Experimental Design /
Statistical Significance / Power / Summary / Key Terms / Problems / References
12. t TESTS / z Tests (A Review) / t Tests / Single-Sample t Tests / t Tests
between Two Independent Sample Means / t Tests for Correlated Samples / Summary
/ Key Terms / Formulas / Problems
13. ONE-WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE / Analysis of Variance: One Test is Better
Than Many / Hypothesis Testing and Analysis of Variance / Conducting an Analysis
of Variance / The F Test / Computational Formula for F / Summary / Key Terms
/ Formulas / Problems / Reference
14. TWO-WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE / Main Effects / Interaction / Computation
of Sums of Squares for Two-Way Analysis of Variance / Computation of Degrees
of Freedom for Two-Way Analysis of Variance / Computation of the Mean Squares
for Two-Way Analysis of Variance / Computation of the F Ratios for Two-Way Analysis
of Variance / Significance of the Main Effects / Significance of the Interaction
/ Summary / Key Terms / Formulas / Problems / Reference
15. CHI-SQUARE AND OTHER NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS / Chi-Square / The Mann-Whitney
U Test / The Wilcoxen T Test / The Kruskal-Wallis Test / Summary / Key Terms
/ Formulas / Problems / References /
APPENDIX A: Tables
APPENDIX B: Solutions to Odd-Numbered Problems
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