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Psychological statistics

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Psychological statistics is the application of formulas, theorems, numbers and laws to psychology. Some of the more common applications include:

  1. psychometrics
  2. learning theory
  3. perception
  4. human development
  5. abnormal psychology
  6. Personality test
  7. psychological tests

Some of the more commonly used statistical tests in psychology are:

Parametric tests

  • Student's t-test
  • analysis of variance (ANOVA)
  • ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance)
  • MANOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Variance)
  • regression analysis
  • linear regression
  • hierarchical linear modelling
  • correlation
  • Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
  • Spearman's rank correlation coefficient

    • Non-parametric tests

  • chi-square
  • Mann–Whitney U

    • References

    Psychological statistics Wikipedia
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