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