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Introduction to the Seventh Edition Introduction: What is Research? Part A. The Research Context 1. The Empirical Approach to Knowledge 2. Types of Empirical Research 3. Scales of Measurement 4. Descriptive, Correlational, and Inferential Statistics Part B. Sampling 5. Introduction to Sampling 6. Variations on Random Sampling 7. Sample Size 8. Standard Error of the Mean and Central Limits Theorem Part C. Descriptive Statistics 9.Frequencies, Percentages, and Proportions 10. Shapes of Distributions 11. The mean: An Average 12. Mean, Median, and Mode 13. Range and Interquartile Range 14. Standard Deviation 15. Z Score Part D Correlational Statistics 16. Correlation 17. Pearson r 18. Scattergram Part E Inferential Statistics 19. Introduction to Null Hypothesis 20. Decisions About the Null Hypothesis Part F Means Comparison 21. Introduction to the t Test 22. Independent Sample t Test 23. Paired Sample t Test 24. One Sample t Test 25. Reports of the Results of t Tests 26. One-Way ANOVA 27. Two-Way ANOVA Part G Predictive Significance 28. Chi-Square 29. Limits of Significance Testing 30. Effect Size 31. Coefficient of Determination 32. Multiple Correlations 33. Simple and Multiple Regressions Appendix A. Computations Appendix B. Notes on Interpreting Pearson r and Linear Regression Appendix C. Table of Random Numbers Appendix D. More About the Null Hypothesis Comprehensive Review Questions Glossary