Social and behavioral statistics
Subtitle: a user-friendly approach
By: Steven P. Schacht and Jeffery E. Aspelmeier.
Contributors: Aspelmeier, Jeffery E.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Westview
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Social sciences -- Statistical methods
Description: "In this newly revised text, the authors continue to make use of their proven stress-busting approach to teaching statistics to self-described math phobic students...[the book] uses humorous examples and step-by-step presentations of statistical procedures to illustrate what are often complex and hard-to-grasp statistical concepts."--Back cover
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Basic mathematical concepts; title: Frequency distributions, graphs, and charts; title: Measures of central tendency; title: Measures of variability; title: Locating points within a distribution; title: Probability; title: Constructing confidence intervals; title: Hypothesis testing between two sets of observations; title: Simple regression and correlation; title: One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA); title: Factorial analysis of variance: ANOVA with more than one independent variable; title: An introduction to chi-square and other non-parametric statistics.