Statistics for Psychology 2/e

Roger Watt is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Stirling. He has spent many years rejecting 'the system' and instead is persistently stubborn in doing things his own way. He most enjoys his trumpet, his watercolours, and whatever he has managed to grow in his garden. Statistics for Psychology is the culmination of several years of pushing for change in how statistics should be approached by psychologists and students. Dr Elizabeth Collins is a curious psychology researcher, who has spent many years translating indecipherable and anxiety-inducing statistics jargon to her peers and to her students. A keen world traveller, photographer and bookworm, she fell into statistics accidentally after becoming a peer tutor during her undergraduate studies. She has spent several years contributing heavily to undergraduate statistics teaching, and hopes Statistics for Psychology can offer a helping hand to researchers worldwide. .

Chapter 1: Why Do We Need Statistics? Chapter 2: The Research Cycle Chapter 3: Variables Chapter 4: Relationships between Variables Intermezzo 1: Correlation Chapter 5: Uncertainty Chapter 6: Null Hypothesis Testing Chapter 7: Statistical Tests for One Independent Variable Intermezzo 2: Alternatives to NHST: Bayes and Likelihood Chapter 8: Minimising Uncertainty: Research Design Chapter 9: Measurements and Uncertainty Chapter 10: Sampling and Uncertainty Intermezzo 3: Uncertain Power Analysis Chapter 11: Hypotheses with More than One Independent Variable Chapter 12: Covariations: Relationships between Two Independent Variables Chapter 13: Analysing Data with Two or More Independent Variables Chapter 14: Which Model is Best? Intermezzo 4: Combining Multiple Studies: Replication and Meta-Analysis Chapter 15: Contributing to Knowledge