Statistics Plain and Simple

This short textbook covers descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, correlation procedures, and nonparametric procedures. Particular chapters focus on topics like organizing data, measures of variation, hypothesis testing, single-sample z tests, the two- group t test, correlation and regression analysis, chi-square tests, and wilcoxon tests. Jackson teaches psychology at Jacksonville University. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sherri Jackson is professor of Psychology at Jacksonville University, where she has taught since 1988. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in cognitive/experimental psychology from the University of Florida. Her research interests include human reasoning and the teaching of psychology. A talented teacher and writer, Sherri teaches both statistics and research methods, and is the author of several textbooks, including: Research Methods and Statistics:A Critical Thinking Approach , Wadsworth (2006)combined book on research methods and statistics and Statistics Plain and Simple, Wadsworth (2005). She is very active in the Teaching of Psychology associations.