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Understanding Statistical Concepts Using S-plus
About This Book
Written as a supplemental text for an introductory or intermediate statistics course, this book is organized along the lines of many popular statistics texts. The chapters provide a good conceptual understanding of basic statistics and include exercises that use S-PLUS simulation programs. Each chapter lists a set of objectives and a summary.
The book offers a rich insight into how probability has shaped statistical procedures in the behavioral sciences, as well as a brief history behind the creation of various statistics. Computational skills are kept to a minimum by including S-PLUS programs that run the exercises in the chapters. Students are not required to master the writing of S-PLUS programs, but explanations of how the programs work and program output are included in each chapter. S-PLUS is an advanced statistical package that has an extensive library of functions, which offer flexibility in writing customized routines.
The S-PLUS functions provide the capability of programming object and dialog windows, which are commonly used in Windows software applications. The S-PLUS program also contains pull-down menus for the statistical analysis of data.
A ZIP file containing programs that work in S-PLUS 6.2 for use with this book is available for download from http://www.psypress.com/resources/9780805836233.zip - please note that these scripts will only run in S-PLUS 6.2 and not later versions due to changes in the programming language syntax.
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INTRODUCTION AND STATISTICAL THEORY
CHAPTER 1
STATISTICAL THEORY
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- I INTRODUCTION AND STATISTICAL THEORY
- II PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
- III MONTE CARLO AND STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
- IV SAMPLING AND INFERENCE
- V HYPOTHESIS TESTING IN RESEARCH
- VI REPLICABILITY OF FINDINGS
- GLOSSARY OF TERMS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- APPENDIX
- ANSWERS TO CHAPTER EXERCISES
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX