Research Methods and Statistics Arena

Basic Statistics for Psychology Students

• By Marc Brysbaert.

Published April 2010

Basic Statistics for Psychology Students is a highly readable textbook specifically tailored for the needs of first-year undergraduate psychology students, and geared towards helping students get over their fears that they might not be good at maths. Divided into twelve easily digestible…
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Statistics in Plain English, Third Edition

• By Timothy C. Urdan.

Published April 2010

This inexpensive paperback provides a brief, simple overview of statistics to help readers gain a better understanding of how statistics work and how to interpret them correctly. It presents brief explanations of statistical concepts and techniques in simple, everyday language. Each self-contained…
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Research Design and Statistical Analysis

Third Edition

• By Jerome L. Myers, Arnold D. Well and Robert F. Lorch Jr.

Published April 2010

Research Design and Statistical Analysis provides comprehensive coverage of the design principles and statistical concepts necessary to make sense of real data. The book’s goal is to provide a strong conceptual foundation to enable readers to generalize concepts to new research situations.&…
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A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS

• By Jenifer Larson-Hall.

Published September 2009

This valuable book shows second language researchers how to use the statistical program SPSS to conduct statistical tests frequently done in SLA research. Using data sets from real SLA studies, A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS shows newcomers to both statistics and…
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SPSS for Psychologists, Fourth Edition

• By Nicola Brace, Richard Kemp and Rosemary Snelgar.

Published May 2009

The new edition of this best-selling guide carefully leads the user through the process of using SPSS (now called PASW) versions 16 and 17 to analyze psychological data. The authors review the basic issues regarding design and proceed through all of the major statistical techniques used in…
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Statistical Misconceptions

• By Schuyler W. Huck.

Published November 2008

Brief and inexpensive, this engaging book helps readers identify and then discard 52 misconceptions about data and statistical summaries. The focus is on major concepts contained in typical undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, research methods, or quantitative analysis. Fun interactive…
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Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends

Doctrine, Verity and Fable in Organizational and Social Sciences

• Edited by Charles E. Lance, and Robert J Vandenberg.

Published October 2008

This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore. Some examples of these "methodological urban legends", as we refer to them in this book, are…
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Data Analysis

A Model Comparison Approach, Second Edition

• By Charles M. Judd, Gary H. McClelland and Carey S. Ryan.

Published August 2008

This completely rewritten classic text features many new examples, insights and topics including mediational, categorical, and multilevel models. Substantially reorganized, this edition provides a briefer, more streamlined examination of data analysis. Noted for its model-comparison approach and…
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Learning From Data

An Introduction To Statistical Reasoning

• By Arthur Glenberg, and Matthew Andrzejewski.

Published August 2007

Learning from Data focuses on how to interpret psychological data and statistical results. The authors review the basics of statistical reasoning to helpstudents better understand relevant data that affecttheir everyday lives. Numerous examples based on current research and events are featured…
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SPSS for Intermediate Statistics

Use and Interpretation

• By Nancy Leech, Karen Barrett and George A Morgan.

Published July 2007

This book helps students learn to analyze and interpret research data using SPSS by demonstrating how to compute a variety of statistics covered in intermediate statistics courses. This edition features SPSS 15.0, but it can also be used with SPSS 16 & 17 or earlier versions. Each…
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