ABOUT THE BOOK

The contents of the book includes – Chapter 1 – Statistics and Scientific method Chapter 2 – Basic mathematical and measurement concepts Chapter 3 – Frequency Distributions Chapter 4 – Measures of central tendency and variability Chapter 5 – The normal curve and standard scores Chapter 6 – correlation Chapter 7 – Linear regression Chapter 8 – Random sampling and probability Chapter 9 – Binomial distribution Chapter 10 – Introduction to hypothesis testing using the sign test Chapter 11 – Power Chapter 12 – Sampling distributions, sampling distribution of the mean, the normal deviate (Z) test Chapter 13 – Student’s t test for single samples Chapter 14 – student’s t test for correlated and independent groups Chapter 15 – Introduction to the analysis of variance Chapter 16 – Introduction to two-way analysis of variance Chapter 17 – Chi-square and other nonparametric tests Chapter 18 – Review of inferential statistics