Illustrating Statistical Procedures: Finding Meaning in Quantitative Data

Introduction.- Chapter 1: The logic and language of statistical analysis Reference.- Chapter 2: Measurement issues in quantitative research.- Chapter 3: Computer programs for analysing quantitative data.- Chapter 4: Example research context aand quantitative data set.- Chapter 5: Descriptive statistics for summarising data.- Chapter 6: Correlational statistics for characterising relationships.- Chapter 7: Inferential statistics for hypothesis testing relationships.- Chapter 8: Other commonly-used statistical procedures relationships.- Chapter 9: Specialised statistical procedures.- Appendices.- Index.

Ray Cooksey is an Emeritus Professor at the UNE Business School, University of New England, Armidale, Australia. His research mainly focuses on the areas of decision making and cognition, chaos and complexity theory, organisational and behavioural systems theory, leadership, teacher judgment, pluralist approaches to research, climate change and adaptation, and multivariate statistics.