An adventure in statistics : the reality enigma / Andy Field. -- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2016. – (51.72/F453)

Contents

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

PROLOGUE: THE DYING STARS

1 WHY YOU NEED SCIENCE

2 REPORTING RESEARCH, VARIABLES AND MEASUREMENT

3 SUMMARIZING DATA

4 FITTING MODELS [CENTRAL TENDENCY]

5 PRESENTING DATA

6 Z-SCORES

7 PROBABILITY

8 INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: GOING BEYOND THE DATA

9 ROBUST ESTIMATION

10 HYPOTHESIS TESTING

11 MODERN APPROACHES TO THEORY TESTING

12 ASSUMPTIONS

13 RELATIONSHIPS

14 THE GENERAL LINEAR MODEL

15 COMPARING TWO MEANS

16 COMPARING SEVERAL MEANS

17 FACTORIAL DESIGNS

EPILOGUE: THE GENIAL NIGHT

APPENDIX

GLOSSARY

REFERENCES

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS