Statistics for The Behavioral and Social Sciences: A Brief Course Author: Amazon Prime | Language: English | ISBN:
0205797253 | Format: EPUB
Statistics for The Behavioral and Social Sciences: A Brief Course Description
For one-quarter/semester courses that focus on the basics in statistics or combine statistics with research methods.
The fifth edition of Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences builds off an already well-established approach - emphasizing the intuitive, deemphasizing the mathematical, and explaining everything in direct, simple language - but also goes beyond these principles to further student understanding. By using definitional formulas to emphasize the concepts of statistics, rather than rote memorization, students work problems in a way that keeps them constantly aware of the underlying logic of what they are doing.
- Paperback: 504 pages
- Publisher: Pearson; 5 edition (July 10, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0205797253
- ISBN-13: 978-0205797257
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
If nothing else, this book recognizes that those who are in the social sciences may have had difficult experiences with statistics in the past that focused purely on the formulas. This book can't make stats 'easy', but it does its best to make it understandable - breaking down the reasoning behind each formulaic move so that you can truly understand the meaning behind the numbers. If you have an option of taking a stats class with this book as opposed to a straight stats for beginners, I'd recommend this one any day.
By Rachel
I'd like to say that first off, I can't stand that the majority of the reviews here are about the delivery of this POS textbook. This is not Ebay!
What is inside the book is what counts and this book for me is an absolute nightmare. I have never taken a statistics class before and being an online student with no time and no access to tutors is an absolute disaster. This book is of no use to a person who is not previously familiar to statistics. It provides no effective examples of the problems for a person to effectively reverse engineer. If you have this book for an online class, you should seek a different means to learn statistics. This book was written with an assumption that you will retain 92% of what you read every week. I'm paying about $1100 for this class and I want a refund for the book!
By K. Osei-Kofi
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