Chapter 2
This is the "theoretical" chapter of the book. While the first chapter was technical and concrete ("Click on the SPSS icon") this chapter is abstract and intuitive. You should relax and let the concepts come to you -- don't struggle with them. If you don't "get it" just keep going. At the same time when you get to the numerical examples it would be good to work them through because they will facilitate conceptual understanding. This chapter is an outline of parametric statistics.
This chapter has three purposes: (1) to present concepts, (2) to be used as a reference and (3) to show relationships between various aspects of statistics. Five prototypes are presented with the hope that they will be information collectors for the statistics contained in the remainder of the manual.
Five Prototypes of the General Linear Model
The five Prototypes are:
