Basic Statistical Analysis

Richard C. Sprinthall

ISBN 10: 0205495974 / ISBN 13: 9780205495979

Verlag: Allyn & Bacon, 2006

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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

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

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Basic Statistical Analysis
Verlag: Allyn & Bacon
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket