Introduction to the new statistics: estimation, open science, and beyond

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- Making the Most of This Book -- 1. Asking and Answering Research Questions -- A Simple Opinion Poll -- Further Intuitions -- Quiz 1.1 -- Careful Thinking About Uncertainty -- The Replicability Crisis and Open Science -- Meta-Analysis -- A Step-by-Step Plan for Estimation -- Quiz 1.2 -- Reporting Your Work -- Take-Home Messages -- End-of-Chapter Exercises -- Answers to Quizzes -- Answers to In-Chapter Exercises -- 2. Research Fundamentals: Don't Fool Yourself -- Inference From Sample to Population

Making Comparisons -- Quiz 2.1 -- Measurement -- Four Types of Measure: NOIR -- Quiz 2.2 -- Three Problematic Forms of Selection -- Open Science: Do We Have the Full Story? -- Where Do Research Questions Come From? -- Quiz 2.3 -- Reporting Your Work -- Take-Home Messages -- End-of-Chapter Exercises -- Answers to Quizzes -- Answers to In-Chapter Exercises -- 3. Picturing and Describing Data -- Pictures of a Data Set -- Using the ESCI Software -- The Normal Distribution -- Quiz 3.1 -- Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Location -- Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Spread -- Quiz 3.2

Descriptive Statistics: Individual Data Points -- Choosing Descriptive Statistics -- Good and Bad Pictures -- Quiz 3.3 -- Reporting Your Work -- Take-Home Messages -- End-of-Chapter Exercises -- Answers to Quizzes -- Answers to In-Chapter Exercises -- 4. The Normal Distribution and Sampling -- Continuous Distributions -- The Normal Distribution -- Quiz 4.1 -- Population and Samples -- Sampling: The Mean Heap and Dance of the Means -- Quiz 4.2 -- The Standard Error -- Some Statistical Magic: The Central Limit Theorem -- Quiz 4.3 -- Take-Home Messages -- End-of-Chapter Exercises

Answers to Quizzes -- Answers to In-Chapter Exercises -- 5. Confidence Intervals and Effect Sizes -- Discussing CIs Informally -- Estimation Error and MoE -- Calculating a CI: Sound the Trumpets! -- Quiz 5.1 -- The t Distribution -- Randomness -- Effect Sizes -- Quiz 5.2 -- Interpreting Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals -- CI Length, MoE, and Level of Confidence, C -- Quiz 5.3 -- Reporting Your Work -- Take-Home Messages -- End-of-Chapter Exercises -- Answers to Quizzes -- Answers to In-Chapter Exercises -- 6. p Values, Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, and Confidence Intervals

The Basics of NHST and p Values -- Quiz 6.1 -- p Values and the Normal Distribution -- p Values and the t Distribution -- Translating Between 95% CIs and p Values -- Quiz 6.2 -- Four NHST and p Value Red Flags -- NHST Decision Making -- Quiz 6.3 -- Reporting Your Work -- Take-Home Messages -- End-of-Chapter Exercises -- Answers to Quizzes -- Answers to In-Chapter Exercises -- 7. The Independent Groups Design -- The Independent Groups Design -- Quiz 7.1 -- A Standardized Effect Size Measure: Cohen's d -- Quiz 7.2 -- Thinking About Values of Cohen's d -- Quiz 7.3 -- NHST and p Values

Overlap of CIs on Independent Means