- 324 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Revised and updated to include the behavioral sciences, the second edition of this introductory statistics book engages students with real-world examples and exercises.
To the dismay of many social and behavioral science majors, successfully passing a statistics course in sociology, psychology, and most other social/behavioral science programs is required, and at many institutions statistics is becoming a university-wide requirement. In this newly revised text, the authors continue to make use of their proven stress-busting approach to teaching statistics to self-describe math phobic students. This book uses humorous examples and step-by-step presentations of statistical procedures to illustrate what are often complex and hard-to-grasp statistical concepts. Students and instructors will find this text to be a helpful, easy to interpret and thoroughly comprehensive introduction to social and behavioral statistics. Perfect for social and behavioral sciences upper-level undergrads fearful of that required stats course. It uses stress-busting features like cartoons and real-world examples to illustrate what are often complex and hard-to-grasp statistical concepts. Includes the newest and most necessary tools for students to master statistical skills making handouts or additional books unnecessary and gives instructors and their students a compact and affordable main text for their introductory stats courses.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Mathematical Concepts
- 3 Frequency Distributions, Graphs, and Charts
- 4 Measures of Central Tendency
- 5 Measures of Variability
- 6 Locating Points Within a Distribution
- 7 Probability
- 8 Constructing Confidence Intervals
- 9 Hypothesis Testing Between Two Sets of Observations
- 10 Simple Regression and Correlation
- 11 One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
- 12 Factorial Analysis of Variance: ANOVA with More than One Independent Variable
- 13 An Introduction to Chi-Square and Other Non-Parametric Statistics
- Appendix 1 Table of Probabilities Under the Normal Curve
- Appendix 2 Critical Values of t
- Appendix 3 Critical Values of F(α = .05 first row; α = .01 second row)
- Appendix 4 Critical Values of the Chi-Square Distribution
- Index