Includes bibliographical references.

Asking and answering research questions -- Research fundamentals : don't fool yourself -- Picturing and describing data -- The normal distribution and sampling -- Confidence intervals and effect sizes -- p values, null hypothesis significance testing, and confidence intervals -- The independent groups design -- The paired design -- Meta-analysis -- Open science and planning research -- Correlation -- Regression -- Frequencies, proportions, and risk -- Extended designs : one independent variable -- Extended designs : two independent variables -- Future directions.

"This is the first introductory statistics text to use an estimation approach from the start to help readers understand effect sizes, confidence intervals (CIs), and meta-analysis (‘the new statistics’). It is also the first text to explain the new and exciting Open Science practices, which encourage replication and enhance the trustworthiness of research. In addition, the book explains NHST fully so students can understand published research. Numerous real research examples are used throughout. The book uses today’s most effective learning strategies and promotes critical thinking, comprehension, and retention, to deepen users’ understanding of statistics and modern research methods. The free ESCI (Exploratory Software for Confidence Intervals) software makes concepts visually vivid, and provides calculation and graphing facilities. The book can be used with or without ESCI." --Publisher's description

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