TY - BOOK AU - Urdan,Timothy C. TI - Statistics in plain English SN - 041587291X AV - QA276.12 .U75 2010 U1 - 519.5 22 PY - 2010///] CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Statistics KW - Textbooks N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to social science research and terminology -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of variability -- The normal distribution -- Standardization and z scores -- Standard errors -- Statistical significance, effect size, and confidence intervals -- Correlation -- t tests -- One-way analysis of variance -- Factorial analysis of variance -- Repeated-measures analysis of variance -- Regression -- The Chi-square test of independence -- Factor analysis and reliability analysis: data reduction techniques -- Appendix A: Area under the normal curve beyond z -- Appendix B: Critical values of the t distributions -- Appendix C: Critical values of the F distributions -- Appendix D: Critical values of the studentized range statistic (for the Tukey HSD Test) -- Appendix E: Critical values of the [Chi superscript] Chi-square distributions ER -