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Psychological statistics is the application of statistics 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

External links

• Statistics at The Psychology Wiki
• Charles McCreery’s tutorials on chi-square, probability and Bayes’ theorem for Oxford University psychology students
• Educational Resources for Psychological Statistics- Daniel J. Denis, Ph.D

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