Statistics for Psychology by Verma and Ghufran

About the book

This new textbook on Statistics has been developed for the students of Psychology at the college and university level, strictly adhering to the syllabi guidelines recommended by University Grant Commission.The examples and exercises have been extracted mostly from psychological research. Apart from the students of Psychology, this comprehensive text will also cater to the students from other ares of Social Sciences and other applied areas like Management, Sociology, Education, Home-Science, Nutrition etc. 

About the authors

Dr. J.P. Verma is a professor of Statistics at the Lakshmibai National University of Physical Education Gwalior. He has experience of more than thirty years of teaching Applied Statistics to the students of various disciplines. He possesses three masters degree in Statistics, Psychology and Computer application besides PhD degree. He has this unique distinction of being 1st position holder in M.Sc. (Statistics) from Kanpur University as well as in M.A (Psychology) from Jiwaji University, Gwalior. He was also visiting fellow to the University of Sydney in 2002. He has visited countries like Australia, Poland, Scotland, Bangkok and Nepal for various academic assignments and conducted numerous workshops in the area of Applied Statistics and Research Methodology.

Dr. Mohammad Ghufran is presently Professor of Psychology in Kumaun University, Neonatal (Almorha Campus). He has been actively associated with teaching and research for more than 22 years. His main area of research is Personality and Social Psychology. He has published more than 35 research articles and a book on Guidance and Counseling.

Table of Contents

About the Authors 

Foreword 

Preface 

1. Importance of Statistics in Psychology

2. Measurement and Scaling Techniques

3. Descriptive Analysis of Psychological Data

4. Graphical Presentation of Data

5. Probability and its Application in Psychology

6. Normal Distribution and its Application 149

7. Correlation and Regression Techniques

8. Sampling Techniques

9. Research Design in Psychology

10. Statistical Inference

11. Analysis of Variance 334

12. Non-parametric Tests for Psychological Data

13. Non-parametric Correlations

14. Application of Factor Analysis in Psychological Data

Recommendation

Structure and flow of contents of this book are really marvelous. They are not only appropriate but also adequate enough to let students master the concepts.

                                           -Prof. (Dr).V. D. Swaminathan, University of Madras