Statistical methods in research / Palmer O. Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The book is based on the content of a year's course in statistics,… primarily for graduate students in education and in psychology." Elementary statistical training is assumed and a knowledge of calculus is essential to a few sections. "The author's primary aim is to supply students with a book that is built on the recent advances in statistical theory and practice." Chapter headings include: Probability and likelihood, Sampling distributions, The testing of statistical hypotheses, The estimation of population parameters, Normal and normalized distributions… , Statistical analysis of data under non-normal assumptions, Sampling theory and practice, Analysis of variance and covariance, The principles of experimentation, and Multiple regression problems. Special subjects treated are the L-test for homogeneity of variance, normalizing transformations, the method of paired comparisons, and discriminant functions.