Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Third Edition
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe the process of estimation and identify two types of estimation.
- Distinguish between significance testing and estimation.
- Compute and interpret confidence intervals for the one-sample z test.
- Compute and interpret confidence intervals for the one-sample t test.
- Compute and interpret confidence intervals for the two-independent-sample t test.
- Compute and interpret confidence intervals for the related-samples t test.
- Distinguish between the certainty and precision of an interval estimate.
- Summarize confidence intervals for the z test and t tests in APA format.
- Compute confidence intervals for the one-sample, two-independent-sample, and related-samples t tests using SPSS.