Synopsis
BASIC STATISTICS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES demystifies and fully explains statistics without leaving out relevant topics or simply presenting formulas, in a format that is non-threatening and inviting to students. The author's clear, patiently crafted explanations, with an occasional touch of humor, teach students not only how to compute an answer, but also why they should perform the procedure or what their answer reveals about the data. The book achieves several objectives: it presents a conceptual-intuitive approach, presents statistics within an understandable research context, deals directly and positively with student weaknesses in mathematics, and introduces new terms and concepts in an integrated way. The result is a text that students can learn from as well as enjoy.
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Synopsis
Intended for basic or introductory courses in departments of psychology, education, sociology, nursing and continuing education, this text places statistical procedures in the research context. Virtually all examples include specific variables and research questions, instead of generic data. Many of them are taken from everyday life, so that students have an intuitive feel for the meaning of the scores and relationships discussed. The text is accompanied by data-analysis software for IBM computers which enables students to perform computations and become comfortable doing statistics on a computer.
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