Understanding Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences With Infotrac - Hardcover

Pagano, Robert R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534617670 ISBN 13: 9780534617677

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 2003

Synopsis

Based on over 30 years of successful teaching experience in this course, Robert Pagano's introductory text takes an intuitive, concepts-based approach to descriptive and inferential statistics. Uses the sign test to introduce inferential statistics, empirically derived sampling distributions, many visual aids and lots of interesting examples to promote student understanding. Even students who are not mathematically inclined praise the text for its clarity, detailed presentation, and use of humor to help make concepts accessible and memorable. Thorough explanations precede the introduction of every formula--and the exercises that immediately follow include a step-by-step model that lets students compare their work against fully solved examples. This combination makes the text perfect for students taking their first statistics course in psychology or other social and behavioral sciences.

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About the Author

Robert R. Pagano received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1956 and a Ph.D. in Biological Psychology from Yale in 1965. He was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, from 1965 to 1989. He was Associate Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1990 to June 2000. While at the Department of Neuroscience, in addition to his other duties, he served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, was the departmental adviser for undergraduate majors, taught both undergraduates and graduate statistics courses, and served as a statistical consultant for departmental faculty. Robert was also Director of the Statistical Cores for two NIH center grants in schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. In addition to statistics, his scholarly interests are in the psychobiology of learning and memory, and the physiology of consciousness. He has taught courses in introductory statistics as the University of Washington and at the University of Pittsburgh for over thirty years. He has been a finalist for the outstanding teaching award at the University of Washington for his teaching of Introductory Statistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534617670
• ISBN 13: 9780534617677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 562