Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Packed with real-world illustrations and the latest data available, Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 7e demystifies and fully explains statistics in a lively, student-friendly format. The author's clear, patiently crafted explanations with an occasional touch of humor, teach students not only how to compute an answer but also why they should perform the procedure or what their answer reveals about the data. Offering a conceptual-intuitive approach, this popular book presents statistics within an understandable research context, deals directly and positively with student weaknesses in mathematics, and introduces new terms and concepts in an integrated way. It also offers tools to help reduce math anxiety, special review sections to ensure understanding, new end-of-chapter questions, insight into how researchers use statistics in real-world practice, and much more. The result is a text students can learn from as well as enjoy.

Featured in the Summer 2013 Social Work newsletter.
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