Statistics for Research and Life

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Publication Date: April 15, 2024

Paperback ISBN: 9781319247171

Pages: 768

Building statistical skills to take students where they want to go.

In this innovative text, pioneering educators Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr. (author of Discovering the Scientist Within) and Kevin P. McIntyre (creator of the website Open Stats Lab) help students overcome math anxiety and build valuable statistical skills. Each chapter takes a unique...

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Preface

Chapter 1: Why Statistics Are So Important
Chapter 2: Frequency Distributions and Visual Displays of Data
Chapter 3: Measures of Central Tendency & Variability
Chapter 4: Z-Scores and the Normal Curve
Chapter 5: Probability and the Distribution of Sample Means
Chapter 6: Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 7: Hypothesis Testing with a Distribution of Sample Means
Chapter 8: Statistical Significance, Confidence Intervals, Effect Size, and Power
Chapter 9: Introduction to t-Tests: The Single Sample t-Test and t-Test for Dependent Means
Chapter 10: t-Test for Two Independent/Unrelated Samples
Chapter 11: One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Chapter 12: Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance ( RM ANOVA)
Chapter 13: Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Chapter 14: Correlation
Chapter 15: Regression
Chapter 16: Chi-Square Tests

Appendix A: Mathematics Refresher
Appendix B: Where Does Data Come From? A Primer on Research Methods and Design
Appendix C: Statistical Tables

Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index

Building Skills for Research and Life, including communicating results in APA Style, using statistical terminology in conversation, interpreting graphs and charts from research articles, building career preparedness, and more.

Innovative Assessment with customizable formative and summative problem sets that are written to the chapter Learning Outcomes and easy to assign and assess.

Focus on Open Science Practices including an emphasis on the ethical considerations in the data analysis process.

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Become a Better Consumer of Statistics gives students the tools they need to critically evaluate the scientific and nonscientific information that they encounter in everyday life.
Statistics on the Job shows students how the skills they are learning can help them in a variety of careers and vocations.

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Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr.

Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr. grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia and went on to receive his B.A. from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and then his Ph.D. in Social/Health Psychology from Stony Brook University. Gary is a husband, father, dog-owner, professor and former chair in the Department of Psychology at Monmouth University, and author of Stronger Than You Think: The 10 Blind Spots That Undermine Your Relationship...and How to See Past Them. He has published over 50 academic articles and book chapters, and given over 120 conference presentations (most co-authored with undergraduates). Dr. Lewandowskis research, writing, and public speaking focus on the self and relationships. His research also examines ways to improve research methods and statistics instruction. He is a nationally recognized teacher who the Princeton Review recognized among its Best 300 Professors from an initial list of 42,000. He has also won Distinguished Teaching Awards at Stony Brook University and at Monmouth, and had his Intimate Relationships course featured in a USA Today article. He has given a TEDx talk, Break-ups Dont Have to Leave You Broken, which has over 2 million views. Currently, Dr. Lewandowski writes the Psychology of Relationships blog on Psychology Today. His expertise and articles (150+ of them) have appeared in mass media outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, The Washington Post, CNN, APA Monitor, WebMD, and Scientific American, and have been enjoyed by over 5 million readers.

Kevin P. McIntyre

Kevin McIntyre earned a B.S. degree in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology with a graduate minor in Research Methods and Statistics from Saint Louis University. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where he primarily teaches courses in statistics and research methods, social psychology, and introductory psychology. He is the creator of OpenStatsLab.com, which is a resource for the teaching of statistics. McIntyre’s research focuses on how romantic relationships affect individuals’ perceptions of self and identity, and his research has been published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Self and Identity, and Personal Relationships. He co-edited a book entitled Interpersonal Relationships and the Self-Concept and his work has been supported by grants from the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In addition to his teaching and research, McIntyre has worked as a statistical consultant on a variety of medical, educational, and psychological research projects. He has also served as a statistical consultant in legal proceedings involving professional sports teams, international technology firms, and financial investment services. McIntyre was born in Naperville, Illinois, where he developed a lifelong interest in rooting for sports teams that have very little chance of winning. He is an avid golfer who once shot an even par round of 72. He currently lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Michele, and daughter, Isla, who are the loves of his life.

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Statistics for Research and Life

First Edition

Publication Date: April 15, 2024

Paperback ISBN: 9781319247171

Pages: 768

Building statistical skills to take students where they want to go.

Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr.