Statistics and Research Methods in Psychology with Excel

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Verma, J.P (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Statistics .; Sociology-Research.; Psychology-Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.; Research Methodology.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.

 This book, specifically developed for students of psychology, covers a wide range of topics in statistics and research designs taught in psychology, in particular, and other disciplines like management, sociology, education, home science, and nutrition, in general, in most universities. It explains how to use Excel to analyze research data by elaborating statistical concepts. Each chapter contains sections like "Check you Computing skill" and "Check your Statistical Concepts" to enable students to assess their knowledge in a graded manner. The book addresses one of the major challenges in psychology research, viz., how to measure subjective phenomenon like attitude, desire, and preferences of an individual. Separate emphasis has been given to the measurement techniques which are essential tools to assess these subjective parameters in numerical form, required for statistical analysis to draw meaningful conclusions. The book is equally helpful to students of humanities, life sciences and other applied areas. Consisting of 14 chapters, the book covers all relevant topics of statistics and research designs which are important for students to plan and complete their research work. 

 Chapter 1. Importance of Statistics in Psychology -- Chapter 2. Measurement and Scaling Techniques -- Chapter 3. Descriptive Analysis of Psychological Data -- Chapter 4. Graphical Presentation of Data -- Chapter 5. Probability and its Application in Psychology -- Chapter 6. Normal Distribution and its Application -- Chapter 7. Correlation and Regression Techniques -- Chapter 8. Sampling Techniques -- Chapter 9. Research Design in Psychology -- Chapter 10. Statistical Inference -- Chapter 11. Analysis of Variance -- Chapter 12. Non-parametric Tests for Psychological Data -- Chapter 13. Non-parametric Correlations -- Chapter 14. Application of Factor Analysis in Psychological Data.