Research methods and statistics : a critical thinking approach

RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS: A CRITICAL THINKING APPROACH, 4e, successfully illustrates the integration between statistics and research methods by demonstrating the ways to use statistics in analyzing data collected during research. Jackson's combined text adopts an inviting narrative style...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Sherri L. , 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Belmont, California : Wadsworth Cengage Learning , c2012
Edition:4th ed
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Thinking like a scientist
  • 2. Getting started : ideas, resources, and ethics
  • 3. Defining, measuring, and manipulating variables
  • 4. Descriptive methods
  • 5. Data organization and descriptive statistics
  • 6. Correlational methods and statistics
  • 7. Probability and hypothesis testing
  • 8. Introduction to inferential statistics
  • 9. The logic of experimental design
  • 10. Inferential statistics : two-groups designs
  • 11. Experimental designs with more than two levels of an independent variable
  • 12. Complex experimental designs
  • 13. Quasi-experimental and single-case designs
  • 14. APA communication guidelines
  • 15. APA sample manuscriptt