Easy Statistics in Psychology

Mark Forshaw is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at Staffordshire University. He is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is the author of Your Undergraduate Psychology Project: A BPS Guide (BPS Blackwell, 2004).

• Preface ixAcknowledgement xi1 An Introduction to Measuring Things 12 Variance and More 113 Probability, Power and Error 234 First Steps in Inferential Testing 435 Analysis of Variance 516 Correlation and Regression 717 Factor Analysis 758 Goodness of Fit and Chi-Squared 1019 Non-parametric Tests 11110 Rarely Used Tests in the Seedy Underbelly of Statistics 115References 125Further Reading 127Index 129

"The book achieves a great deal in a short space, and I am sure many readers will find it extremely useful.... This is an unusual and generally well-written book that will be valuable for those who want their statistical understanding to come from words rather than numbers or mathematics." (Psychology Learning and Teaching, Autumn 2008)