Research Methods and Statistics: A Critical Thinking Approach

Key differences between 5th and 4th editions

• Time lapse between previous and current publications: 4 years (2015 vs 2011).
• S. Jackson's Research Methods and Statistics was first published in 2001.
• The Fifth edition contains 15 chapters -- just as the previous Fourth edition.
• Statistical Software Resources sections are included in Chapters 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14.
• Chapter 7 includes material on basic concepts and rules of probability as wll as standard normal distribution.
• Chapters 9 now covers between-subjects design and the parametric statistic appropriate for this experimental design.
• Chapters 10 now covers correlated-groups design and the parametric statistic appropriate for this experimental design.
• Material on non-parametric tests from the 4th Edition's chapter 10 "Inferential Statistics: Two-Group Designs" has been moved to new Chapter 14.
• New Chapter 14 "Non-parametric Inferential Statistics" covers:
• Kruskal-Wallis Test, a non-parametric testing to compare three or more groups of sample data.
• Friedman Test, a non-parametric test for testing the difference between several related samples.
• New Appendix D Getting Started with Excel, SPSS, and the TI-84 Calculator.