Ferguson, G. A., & Takane, Y. (1989). Statistical analysis in psychology and education (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Chapter Outline
[NOTE: Sections with double asterisks are extremely
important, those with an asterisk are important, those with no
asterisk should be read, and those not listed can be skipped without
loss of continuity. Exercises listed are considered especially
relevant to developing an understanding of the important
concepts.]
- Chapter One: Basic Ideas in Statistics
- 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4**, 1.5*, 1.6*, 1.7**, 1.8
- Chapter Two: Frequency Distributions and Their Graphic Representation
- 2.1, 2.2, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13*, 2.14
- Chapter Three: Statistical Notation
- 3.1, 3.2, 3.3*, 3.4*
- Exercises: 1-14
- Chapter Four: Measures of Central Tendency
- 4.1, 4.2**, 4.4**, 4.5*, 4.6, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10
- Exercises: 1, 3-6, 14, 16
- Chapter Five: Measures of Variation, Skewness, and Kurtosis
- 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4**, 5.5, 5.6*, 5.7*, 5.8**, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12
- Exercises: 1c, 1d, 2-8, 13-16
- Chapter Six: Probability and the Binomial Distribution
- 6.1, 6.2*, 6.3*, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6*, 6.7, 6.8**, 6.9*
- Exercises: 1-6, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17-19, 21-25, 27, 32-34
- Chapter Seven: The Normal Curve
- 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4**, 7.5, 7.6*, 7.7*
- Exercises: 3-6, 8-15
- Chapter Eight: Regression and Correlation
- 8.1, 8.2, 8.3**, 8.4**, 8.5, 8.6*, 8.7**, 8.8*, 8.9*,
8.10*, 8.11*, 8.12*, 8.13*, 8.14*, 8.15*, 8.16*
- Exercises: 1-7, 10, 11, 13-20, 22-30
- Chapter Nine: Sampling and Sampling Distributions
- 9.1, 9.2*, 9.3**, 9.4**, 9.5, 9.6*, 9.7, 9.8*, 9.9
- Exercises: 5, 8, 10-14, 17, 19, 21
- Chapter Ten: Estimation and the Distribution of t
- 10.1, 10.2, 10.3*, 10.4*, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
- Exercises: 1-4, 6, 8, 9, 12
- Chapter Eleven: Hypothesis Testing: Means
- 11.1, 11.2**, 11.3**, 11.4**, 11.5*, 11.5*, 11.7*, 11.8*, 11.9*,
11.10*, 11.11*
- Exercises: 1-5, 8-12, 14
- Chapter Twelve: Hypothesis Testing: Other Statistics
- 12.1, 12.6**, 12.7**
- Exercises: 12
- Chapter Thirteen: Analysis of Frequencies Using Chi Square
- 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5*, 13.6, 13.9. 13.10, 13.11
- Exercises: 7-9, 13, 14
- Chapter Fourteen: The Structure and Planning of Experiments
- 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8
- Exercises: 1-3, 5, 8-10
- Chapter Fifteen: Analysis of Variance: One-Way Classification
- 15.1*, 15.2, 15.3**, 15.4**, 15.5**, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8, 15.9,
15.10**, 15.11*
- Exercises: 1-12