Explaining Psychological Statistics - Hardcover

Cohen, Barry H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470007184 ISBN 13: 9780470007181

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Synopsis

This comprehensive graduate–level statistics text is aimed at students with a minimal background in the area or those who are wary of the subject matter. The new edition of this successful text will continue to offer students a lively and engaging introduction to the field, provide comprehensive coverage of the material, and will also include examples and exercises using common statistical software packages (SPSS).

About this title

About the Author

Barry H. Cohen, PhD, is the director of the master′s program in psychology at New York University, where he has been teaching statistics for more than twenty years. He is the coauthor of two other successful statistics books from Wiley: Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Sixth Edition and Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

From the Back Cover

A clear and accessible statistics text now fully updated and revised

Explaining Psychological Statistics, Third Edition offers students an engaging introduction to the field. Presenting the material in a logically flowing, non–intimidating way, this comprehensive text covers both introductory and advanced topics in statistics, from the basic concepts (and limitations) of null hypothesis testing to mixed–design ANOVA and multiple regression.

New to this edition are sections on MANOVA and robust statistics, as well as expanded coverage of effect–size measures and confidence intervals. This new edition also features an online ancillary package consisting of an instructor′s manual, test bank, and an author–created Web site with a study guide, errata, and supplements. The supplements include computer exercises that use a common data set across all of the chapters and detailed explanations of how to perform each of the exercises and interpret the output in SPSS.

From an Instructor

"I teach a master′s level, one–semester statistics course, and it is a challenge to find a textbook that is at the right level. Barry Cohen′s book is the best one I have found. . . . I like the fact that the chapters have different sections that allow the professor to decide how much depth of coverage to include in his/her course. . . . This is a strong and improved edition of an already good book."
Karen Caplovitz Barrett, PhD, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University

From a Student

"The quality is uniformly good. . . . This is not the first statistics text I have read but it is one of the best."
Michael Dosch, CRNA, MS, Doctoral Student in College of Education, Wayne State University

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470007184
• ISBN 13: 9780470007181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 864