Research methods and statistics / Ian Walker.
Material type: TextSeries: Palgrave insights in psychologyPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0230249884
- 9780230249882
- 150.721 22
- BF76.5 .W35 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: RESEARCH DESIGN -- Introduction -- The First Three Stages of Designing a Study -- Samples and Populations -- Types of Study Observation, Experiment, Qualitative -- The Mighty Experiment -- Qualitative Research -- Ethics -- Putting It All Together: Thinking Through Two Study Designs -- STATISTICS -- How Statistics Are Used to Describe Research Findings -- Describing Research Findings with Graphs -- Presenting Qualitative Data -- The Chi Squared Test -- The Normal Distribution -- Looking For A Difference Between Two Sets of Numbers [t-Tests, Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon] -- Explain What Parametricity Is -- Looking at Relationships -- Qualitative Analysis -- REFERENCE -- Writing Research Reports -- Glossary.
"Whether its designing a study, conducting an experiment, or analysing the results, research methods are an integral part of Psychology. In this student-friendly introduction, Walker covers the different types of study, quantitative data, statistics and ethics. This book is the perfect tool to help build students' confidence in this vital area"-- Provided by publisher.
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