Statistics: An Introduction - Hardcover

Kirk, Roger E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030193370 ISBN 13: 9780030193378

Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 1998

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Emphasizing the logic of statistical principles, this text provides students with guidelines for deciding when to use various procedures. It covers descriptive and inferential statistics, and procedures for assessing practical significance are emphasized over statistical significance. Expanded topics include confidence intervals, visual approaches to understanding data such as box plots and confidence interval graphs, and procedures for detecting outliers. ALso included are multiple comparison procedures and discussions of printouts from three microcomputer statistics packages - JMP, SPSS and SYSTAT.

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Roger E. Kirk received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the Ohio State University and did post doctoral study in mathematical psychology at the University of Michigan. He is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Statistics at Baylor University. He founded, and for 25 years, directed Baylor s Behavioral Statistics Ph.D. program and the Institute of Statistics, now the Department of Statistical Science. For the past 29 years he also has been the president of Research Consultants, a statistical consulting corporation. He has published extensively in the areas of statistics, psychoacoustics, and human engineering, and is the author of five statistics books. Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences, his first book, was identified by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the most frequently cited books in its field. Dr. Kirk is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 2, 5, 13, and 21), the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Educational Research Association. He is a past president of the Society for Applied Multivariate Research, Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, and the Southwestern Psychological Association. In recognition of his teaching effectiveness, he was named the Outstanding Tenured Teacher in the College of Arts and Sciences and designated a Master Teacher, Baylor University s highest teaching honor. He is the 2005 recipient of the Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring from the Division of Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics of the American Psychological Association.

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• Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0030193370
• ISBN 13: 9780030193378
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 755
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