Statistics For Psychology by JP Verma

This new textbook on Statistics has been developed for the students of Psychology at the college and university level, strictly adhering to the syllabi guidelines recommended by UGC. The examples and exercises have been extracted mostly from psychological research. Apart from students of Psychology, this comprehensive text will also cater to the students from other areas of Social Sciences and other applied areas like Management, Sociology, Education, Home-Science, Nutrition etc.

Contents

Importance of Statistics in Psychology

Measurement and Scaling Techniques

Descriptive Analysis of Psychological Data

Graphical Presentation of Data

Probability and its Application in Psychology

Normal Distribution and its Application

Correlation and Regression Techniques

Sampling Techniques

Research Design in Psychology

Statistical Inference

Analysis of Variance

Non-parametric Tests for Psychological Data

Non-parametric Correlations

Applications of Factor Analysis in Psychological Data