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This handbook brings together the latest thinking on the scientific study of closeness and intimacy from some of the most active and widely recognized relationship scholars in social and clinical psychology, communication studies, and related disc...
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Displaying the order in a group of numbers
Chapter 2 Central tendency and variability
Chapter 3 Some key ingredients for inferential statistics: Z scores, the normal curve, sample versus
population, and probability
Chapter 4 Introduction to hypothesis testing
Chapter 5 Hypothesis testing with means of samples
Chapter 6 Making sense of statistical significance: Effect size and statistical power
Chapter 7 Introduction to the t test: Single sample and dependent means
Chapter 8 The t test for independent means
Chapter 9 Introduction to the analysis of variance
Chapter 10 Factorial analysis of variance
Chapter 11 Correlation
Chapter 12 Prediction
Chapter 13 Chi-square tests
Chapter 14 Strategies when population distributions are not normal: Data transformations and rank-order
tests
Chapter 15 Integration and the general linear model and Making sense of advanced statistical procedures in
research articles
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Displaying the order in a group of numbers
The Two Branches of Statistical Methods
Some Basic Concepts
Frequency Tables
Histograms
Shapes of Frequency Distributions
Controversy: Misleading Graphs
Frequency Tables and Histograms in Research Articles
Summary
Key Terms
Example Worked-Out Problems
Practice Problems
Using SPSS
Chapter Note
Chapter 2: Central tendency and variability
Central Tendency
Variability
Controversy: The Tyranny of the Mean
Central Tendency and Variability in Research Articles
Summary
Key Terms
Example Worked-Out Problems
Practice Problems
Using SPSS
Chapter Note
Chapter 3: Some key ingredients for inferential statistics: Z scores, the normal curve, sample versus
population, and probability
Z Scores
The Normal Curve
Sample and Population
Probability
Controversies: Is the Normal Curve Really So Normal? And Using Nonrandom Samples
Z Scores, Normal Curves, Samples and Populations, and Probabilities in Research Articles
Advanced Topics: Probability Rules and Conditional Probabilities
Summary
Key Terms
Example Worked-Out Problems
Practice Problems
Using SPSS
Chapter Note
Chapter 4: Introduction to hypothesis testing
A Hypothesis-Testing Example
The Core Logic of Hypothesis Testing
The Hypothesis-Testing Process
One-Tailed and Two-Tailed Hypothesis Tests
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