After you have successfully completed this unit, you will be able to:
• Identify the major sections of an APA-style research report and the basic contents of each section
• Plan and write an effective APA-style research report
• Use frequency tables and histograms to display and interpret the distribution of a variable
• Compute and interpret the mean, median, and mode of a distribution and identify situations in which each of these measures of central tendency is most appropriate
• Compute and interpret the range and standard deviation of a distribution
• Write out simple descriptive statistics in APA style
• Interpret and create simple APA-style graphs—including bar graphs, line graphs, and scatterplots
• Interpret and create simple APA-style tables—including tables of group or condition means and correlation matrices
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