Making Sense of Behavioral Statistics

When purchased from FlatWorld (the publisher), this Color Print Textbook includes Online Access, Quizzes, and Homework (if professor uses Homework system). Online textbook is accessible. Making Sense of Behavioral Statistics helps students attain statistical literacy by achieving three broad (1) Understand basic descriptive statistics, including how to present and use tables and graphs and the common measures of properties of distributions, (2) Fully appreciate how the process of inferring population characteristics from sample characteristics is based on the ability to compute probabilities of study outcomes, and (3) Understand the logic and interpretation of the four major inferential procedures in conventional statistical applications—hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, effect size estimation, and power. This book encourages learners to attain statistical literacy by treating all statistical concepts and procedures as logical and meaningful, particularly for students who are uncomfortable with or anxious about mathematics.