Psychological statistics

Psychological statistics

Psychological statistics is the application of statistics to psychology. Some of the more common applications include:
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Some of the more commonly used statistical tests in psychology are:

Parametric tests
* Student's t-test
* analysis of variance (ANOVA)
** ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance)
** MANOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Variance)
* regression analysis
** linear regression
** hierarchical linear modelling
* correlation
** Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
** Spearman's rank correlation coefficientNon-parametric tests
* chi-square
* Mann-Whitney U

External links

* [http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Statistics Statistics at The Psychology Wiki]
* [http://www.celiagreen.com/charlesmccreery.html Charles McCreery’s tutorials on chi-square, probability and Bayes’ theorem for Oxford University psychology students]
* [http://psychweb.psy.umt.edu/denis/scl/resources/home.html Educational Resources for Psychological Statistics] - [http://psychweb.psy.umt.edu/www/faculty/denis.htm Daniel J. Denis, Ph.D]


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