Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences PDF

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This introductory text provides students with a conceptual understanding of basic statistical procedures, as well as the computational skills needed to complete them. The clear presentation, accessible language, and step-by-step instruction make it easy for students from a variety of social science disciplines to grasp the material. The scenarios presented in chapter exercises span the curriculum, from political science to marketing, so that students make a connection between their own area of interest and the study of statistics. Unique coverage focuses on concepts critical to understanding current statistical research such as power and sample size, multiple comparison tests, multiple regression, and analysis of covariance. Additional SPSS coverage throughout the text includes computer printouts and expanded discussion of their contents in interpreting the results of sample exercises.

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• Hardcover: 784 pages
• Publisher: Cengage Learning; 5 edition (October 7, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0618124055
• ISBN-13: 978-0618124053
• Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 7.6 x 9 inches
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Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences PDF

(1998 version) This book excels at telling you how to apply methods but not why you would, or why you would choose one method over another. The content is mostly dry and recipe-oriented and, like many statistics textbooks, gives the false impression that the field offers few opportunities for interesting judgments and has few areas of controversy. For example, the book typically seems to tell us that a situation either meets the assumptions underlying a particular test (in which case the test can be conducted, almost worry-free) or does not (in which case the test simply cannot be done). Most of us usually find ourselves in the middle ground and could use some guidelines as to the best course. Insights on issues like these are few and far between, though they are thought-provoking and valuable when they do come.

The book is pretty well packed with information. The chapters follow an organization I found a little odd, though; you may find yourself writing your own makeshift table of contents or selected index. The book also seems to go through slight shifts in its level of sophistication.

All in all, I have spent a fair amount of time with the book and have been glad to own it as a complement and sometimes foil to others. But, starting over, it wouldn't be one of my top choices.

By Roland B. Stark

I am not a math person and I have read the chapter before each class for Stats and it is confusing until the Professor explains it a different way. The equations are much harder in the text book than the ones my professor uses and it seems to have more information than we actually need to know for a basic stats course.

By Hannah