Statistics and Research Methods in Psychology with Excel

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Importance of Statistics in Psychology (J. P. Verma)....Pages 1-21 Measurement and Scaling Techniques (J. P. Verma)....Pages 23-69 Descriptive Analysis of Psychological Data (J. P. Verma)....Pages 71-133 Graphical Presentation of Data (J. P. Verma)....Pages 135-160 Probability and Its Application in Psychology (J. P. Verma)....Pages 161-199 Normal Distribution and Its Application (J. P. Verma)....Pages 201-235 Correlation and Regression Techniques (J. P. Verma)....Pages 237-289 Sampling Techniques (J. P. Verma)....Pages 291-332 Research Design in Psychology (J. P. Verma)....Pages 333-363 Statistical Inference (J. P. Verma)....Pages 365-438 Analysis of Variance (J. P. Verma)....Pages 439-476 Non-parametric Tests for Psychological Data (J. P. Verma)....Pages 477-521 Non-parametric Correlations (J. P. Verma)....Pages 523-565 Application of Factor Analysis in Psychological Data (J. P. Verma)....Pages 567-588 Back Matter ....Pages 589-619