Overview
Now your students can become intelligent consumers of scientific research, without being overwhelmed by the statistics! Jaccard and Becker's text teaches students the basic skills for analyzing data and helps them become intelligent consumers of scientific information. Praised for its real-life applications, the text tells students when to use a particular statistic, why they should use it, and how the statistic should be computed and interpreted. Because many students, given a set of data, cannot determine where to begin in answering relevant research questions, the authors explicate the issues involved in selecting a statistical test. Each statistical technique is introduced by giving instances where the test is most typically applied followed by an interesting research example (each example is taken from psychology literature).
Synopsis
This textbook for undergraduate students in the behavioral sciences provides an introduction to statistics. The emphasis is on learning to analyze data as it is commonly presented in behavioral science journals. Following the introductory chapters, Jaccard (SUNY Albany) and Becker (Pennsylvania State U., Harrisburg) discuss such topics as one-way repeated measures analysis of variance; nonparametric statistics; and selecting the appropriate statistical test for analyzing bivariate relationships. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Booknews
An introductory undergraduate level text focusing as much on the intelligent use of scientific information as on basic skills for analyzing data. New to this edition are expanded sections on graphs and exploratory data analysis, a discussion of the use of computers, a new section on interaction comparisons, and new material on inferential aspects of prediction. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.