Brief Table of Contents

Part 1: Descriptive Statistics

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Statistics

Chapter 2: Variables and Their Distributions

Chapter 3: Measures of Properties of Distributions

Part 2: Foundations of Inferential Statistics

Chapter 4: Introduction to Probability

Chapter 5: The Normal Distribution: Theoretical Foundations

Part 3: Analyzing Means

Chapter 6: Inferential Procedures Based on the Normal Distribution

Chapter 7: The Power of a Hypothesis Test

Chapter 8: Student’s t for Inferences about a Single Mean

Chapter 9: Student’s t for Inferences about the Difference between Two Means

Part 4: Analyzing Variance

Chapter 10: One-Factor Analysis of Variance

Chapter 11: Two-Factor Analysis of Variance

Part 5: Analyzing Frequencies

Chapter 12: Using the Chi-Square Distribution to Analyze Frequencies

Part 6: Bivariate Distributions: Analyzing Relations between Variables

Chapter 13: Describing Bivariate Distributions

Chapter 14: Inferences about Correlation and Regression

Appendix A: An Introduction to SPSS

Appendix B: The Research Study

Appendix C: Integration and Application: Descriptive Statistics

Appendix D: Integration and Application: Analyzing Means

Appendix E: Integration and Application: Analyzing Variance

Appendix F: Integration and Application: Analyzing Relations between Variables