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Learn statistical reasoning and problem solving from a best-selling author who uses a wealth of examples from the social and behavioral sciences, education, nursing/allied health, and business fields - as well as examples from everyday life-to help you learn and understand. Praised for his clear explanations, Spatz shows you how to start with a data set, identify the questions it poses, determine and carry out statistical procedures, and using plain English, tell the story the data reveal.

Table of Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Exploring Data: Frequency Distributions and Graphs. 3. Exploring Data: Central Tendency. 4. Exploring Data: Variability. 5. Other Descriptive Statistics. 6. Correlation and Regression. 7. Theoretical Distributions Including the Normal Distribution. 8. Samples, Sampling Distributions, and Confidence Intervals. 9. Hypothesis Testing and Effect Size: One-Sample Designs. 10. Hypothesis Testing, Effect Size, and and Confidence Intervals: Two-Sample Designs. 11. Analysis of Variance: One-Way Classification. 12. Analysis of Variance: One-Factor Repeated Measures. 13. Analysis of Variance: Factorial Design. 14. Chi Square Tests. 15. More nonparametric Tests 16. Choosing Tests and Writing Interpretations. Appendix A: Arithmetic and Algebra Review. Appendix B: Grouped Frequency Distributions and Central Tendency. Appendix C: Tables. Appendix D: Glossary of Words. Appendix E: Glossary of Symbols. Appendix F: Glossary of Formulas. Appendix G: Answers to Problems. References Index Inside Back Cover: Decision Tree for Statistics.