TY - BOOK AU - Blommers,Paul J. AU - Forsyth,Robert A. TI - Elementary statistical methods in psychology and education SN - 0395243408 U1 - 519.5/02/415 PY - 1977/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Statistics KW - Psychometrics KW - Educational statistics N1 - includes index ; 1. Introduction 2. Some remarks about the nature of behavioral science data 3. The frequency 4. Percentile ranks and percentiles 5. Symbolic representation of data 6. Indexes of location or central tendency 7. Measures of variability 8. Linear transformations 9. Introduction to some probability concepts 10. The normal probability distribution 11. Introduction to sampling theory 12. Testing statistical hypotheses: the classical hypothesis testing procedure 13. Sampling theory as it applies to difference between means and proportions: large samples 14. Interval estimation 15. Some small sample theory and its application 16. Introduction to bayesian inference 17. Correlation 18. The prediction problem 19. Sampling error theory for simple linear regression 20. Appendix ER -