Statistics for Psychologists: A Conceptual Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning

Statistics for Psychologists: A Conceptual Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning is a comprehensive textbook designed specifically for psychology students encountering statistics for the first time as an essential tool for scientific reasoning. Across 19 carefully structured chapters, the book guides readers from the fundamental principles of statistical thinking in psychological science through common procedures of descriptive statistics using specialized software, and on to contemporary debates in statistical inference, culminating in a more detailed treatment of the general linear model through linear regression analysis. What sets the textbook apart is its highly accessible writing style, the wealth of referenced works available via embedded hyperlinks, and its comprehensive approach to statistical inference, with dedicated chapters on replication studies, meta-analyses, and Bayesian statistics—topics of great importance for psychological research that are rarely addressed in introductory textbooks.