Understanding and Using Statistics in Psychology

Dr Phil Banyard is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). In his thirty years at NTU Phil Banyard taught on a range of courses but focused on introductory modules and critical thinking. His research was concerned with the impact of digital technologies on teaching and learning, especially in schools. He was a chief examiner of A Level Psychology for many years and has written more than twenty texts. Among these is an introductory text with SAGE (now in its fourth edition) that brought in over 50 members of the department at NTU. His cultural interests are largely defined by smallpeople in the family and he is currently enjoying Captain Underpants series three which he regards as riotously creative.

′The book comprehensively covers all the main areas of statistical research one would expect at an undergraduate level...the subtitle for this book is How I Came To Know and Love the Standard Error. Now, whilst my feelings towards the standard error have not been considerably altered, at the very least I have been entertained and amused but above all informed by this readable book.′ Deaglan PagePsychology: Learning & Teaching

• IntroductionHow To Get Started with StatisticsDescriptive StatisticsSamples, Populations and the Normal DistributionMaking InferencesConfidence Limits and Statistical SignificanceAnalyzing Data from Repeated Measures ExperimentsAnalyzing Data from Independent GroupsContinuous Ordinal MeasuresAnalyzing Data from Independent GroupsCategorical MeasuresRelationships between VariablesCorrelation and RegressionIntroducing Analysis of Variance Analysing Questionnaires and Measurement InstrumentsThinking Some More about StatisticsReport Writing