TY - BOOK AU - Watt, Roger AU - Collins, Elizabeth TI - Statistics for psychology: a guide for beginners and everyone else SN - 9781526441263 AV - BF 39 .W38 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Los Angeles, California PB - Sage Publications KW - PSYCHOLOGY -- STATISTICAL METHOD N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Chapter 1: Why do we need statistics? -- Chapter 2: The research cycle -- Chapter 3: Variables -- Chapter 4: Relationships between variables -- Chapter 5: Uncertainty in research -- Chapter 6: Null hypothesis testing -- Chapter 7: Statistical tests forone independent variable -- Chapter 8: Minimising uncertainty: research design -- Chapter 9: Measurements and uncertainty Chapter 10: Sampling and uncertainty -- Chapter 11: Hypotheses with more than one independent variable -- Chapter 12: Covariations: relationships between two independent variables. N2 - This concise, easy-to-understand and highly visual book helps students to understand the principles behind the many statistical practices. This text helps students to build a mental map to enable them to work their way through tests and procedures with a better level of understanding (and ultimately feel more confident and get better grades). Statistical analysis will also be covered in the book in the same simple-to-follow way, without messy details or complicated formulae. However, this approach does not lead to simple understanding. Instead it allows students to really grasp how to use, and be creative with, statistics ER -