Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

Name: Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics
Author: Neil J. Salkind
ISBN: 9781412979603

by Neil J. Salkind

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Synopsis

This textbook introduces the most commonly used techniques to organize data and perform basic statistical work. Salkind (human development, University of Kansas) covers computing measures of central tendency, distributions and curve plotting, graphing data, probability, statistical significance, correlation/regression, ANOVA, and multiple regression. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

About the Author, Neil J. Salkind

Neil J. Salkind has been teaching at the University of Kansas for 30 years, in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education. He taught courses in developmental theories, life-span development, statistics, and research methods and received his PhD in human development from the University of Maryland. He has published more than 80 professional papers and is the author of several college-level textbooks, including Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics (now in the third edition), Child Development, Exploring Research, and Introduction to Theories of Human Development (Sage 2004). He was editor of Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography from 1989 through 2002 and is active in the Society for Research in Child Development.