Interpreting Basic Statistics: A Guide and Workbook Based on Excerpts from Journal Articles - Softcover

Zealure C. Holcomb

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9781884585395: Interpreting Basic Statistics: A Guide and Workbook Based on Excerpts from Journal Articles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884585396 ISBN 13: 9781884585395

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

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� Students get valuable practice in interpreting statistical reporting as it actually appears in journals. In each of the 62 exercises, your students will read a brief excerpt of statistical reporting from a published research article.

� Each exercise begins with guidelines for interpreting the statistics in the excerpt.

� The questions on the excerpts promote learning by requiring students to

� interpret information in tables and figures,

� perform simple calculations to further their interpretations,

� critique data-reporting techniques, and

� evaluate procedures used to collect data.

� Each exercise covers a limited number of statistics, making it easy for you to coordinate the exercises with lectures and a main textbook.

� The questions in each exercise are divided into two parts: (1) Factual Questions and (2) Questions for Discussion. The factual questions require careful reading for details, while the discussion questions show students that interpreting statistics is more than a mathematical exercise. These questions require them to apply good judgment as well as statistical reasoning in arriving at appropriate interpretations.

� Thirteen new exercises interspersed throughout show how to interpret a greater array of statistical reporting.

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