1st Edition

Statistics for Sport and Exercise Studies An Introduction

By Peter O'Donoghue Copyright 2012
416 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

Statistics for Sport and Exercise Studies guides the student through the full research process, from selecting the most appropriate statistical procedure, to analysing data, to the presentation of results, illustrating every key step in the process with clear examples, case-studies and data taken from real sport and exercise settings. Every chapter includes a range of features designed to... Read more

1. Data, Information and Statistics  2. Using this book  3. Descriptive Statistics  4. Standardized scores  5. Probability  6. Data distributions  7. Hypothesis testing  8. Correlation  9. Linear Regression  10. t Tests  11. Analysis of Variances  12. Factorial ANOVA  13. Multivariate ANOVA  14. Nonparametric tests  15. Chi Square  16. Statistical Classification  17. Cluster Analysis  18. Data Reduction using Principal Components Analysis  19. Reliability  20. Statistical Power

Biography

Peter O’Donoghue is Reader and Discipline Director for Performance Analysis in the Cardiff School of Sport, UWIC, UK. Peter started his career as a computer scientist before moving into sport and exercise science in 1997. Since then he has been active in the performance analysis of sport and is Chair of the International Society of Performance Analysis of Sport.