The material in this user-friendly text is presented as simply as possible to ensure that students will gain a solid understanding of statistical procedures and analysis.

The goal of this book is to demystify and present statistics in a clear, cohesive manner. The student is presented with rules of evidence and the logic behind those rules. The book is divided into three major units: Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, and Advanced Topics in Inferential Statistics.

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This user-friendly text demystifies statistics by helping students understand the rules of evidence and the logic behind those rules. The book is divided into three major units: Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, and Advanced Topics in Inferential Statistics. Students’ academic success is reinforced with an extensive glossary, problems and test questions throughout the text, and a summary at the end of each chapter.

Here’s what’s new in the Eighth Edition:

Incorporation of SPSS throughout the text
New “Spotlight on SPSS” boxes, detailing how to use SPSS to do each example shown
New section on reading SPSS’s scientific notation
New section on SPSS’s use of bootstrapping, jack-knifing, and the Monte Carlo method
More emphasis on research strategies involved in forensic psychology and criminal justice
New section on how the general linear model can be interpreted in the context of ANOVA
New section on how to treat tie scores when doing the Spearman correlation
New section on reading percentages and calculating per-capita rates

INSTRUCTORS: DON’T MISS THIS GREAT VALUEPACK OPTION!

SPSS for Windows Student Version CD-ROM can be packaged with this text.

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