This book specifically developed for students of psychology covers a wide range of topics in
statistics and research designs taught in psychology in particular and other disciplines like
management sociology education home science and nutrition in general in most
universities. It explains how to use Excel to analyze research data by elaborating statistical
concepts. Each chapter contains sections like Check you Computing skill and Check your
Statistical Concepts to enable students to assess their knowledge in a graded manner. The book
addresses one of the major challenges in psychology research viz. how to measure subjective
phenomenon like attitude desire and preferences of an individual. Separate emphasis has been
given to the measurement techniques which are essential tools to assess these subjective
parameters in numerical form required for statistical analysis to draw meaningful conclusions.
The book is equally helpful to students of humanities lifesciences and other applied areas.
Consisting of 14 chapters the book covers all relevant topics of statistics and research
designs which are important for students to plan and complete their research work.
