Statistics Without Maths for Psychology

John Reidy is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. He was previously Head of Department for the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics at Sheffield Hallam University. His research interests include cognition and emotion, health psychology interventions and psychometric testing.Christine P. Dancey was an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of East London.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 Variables and research design2 Introduction to SPSS3 Descriptive statistics4 Probability, sampling and distributions5 Hypothesis testing and statistical significance6 Correlational analysis: Pearson’s r7 Analyses of differences between two conditions: the t-test8 Issues of significance9 Measures of association10 Analysis of differences between three or more conditions11 Analysis of variance with more than one IV12 Regression analysis13 Analysis of three or more groups partialling out effects of a covariate14 Introduction to factor analysis15 Introduction to multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)16 Non-parametric statisticsAnswers to activities and SPSS exercisesAppendix 1: Table of z-scores and the proportion of the standard normal distribution falling above and below each scoreAppendix 2: Table r to zrIndex