Basic Statistical Analysis

The material in this user-friendly book is presented as simply as possible to ensure that readers will gain a solid understanding of statistical procedures and analysis.

The goal of this book is to demystify and present statistics in a clear, cohesive manner. The reader is presented with rules of evidence and the logic behind those rules. The book is divided into three major units: Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, and Advanced Topics in Inferential Statistics.

This user-friendly text demystifies statistics by helping students understand the rules of evidence and the logic behind those rules.  The book is divided into three major units:  Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, and Advanced Topics in Inferential Statistics.  Students’ academic success is reinforced with an extensive glossary, problems and test questions throughout the text, and a summary at the end of each chapter.

Here’s what’s new in the Eighth Edition:

• Incorporation of SPSS throughout the text
• New “Spotlight on SPSS” boxes, detailing how to use SPSS to do each example shown
• New section on reading SPSS’s scientific notation
• New section on SPSS’s use of bootstrapping, jack-knifing, and the Monte Carlo method
• More emphasis on research strategies involved in forensic psychology and criminal justice
• New section on how the general linear model can be interpreted in the context of ANOVA
• New section on how to treat tie scores when doing the Spearman correlation
• New section on reading percentages and calculating per-capita rates

INSTRUCTORS:  DON’T MISS THIS GREAT VALUEPACK OPTION! 

SPSS for Windows Student Version CD-ROM can be packaged with this text.