Textbook Charlie. Campus Bookstore. Seller rating : This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. SGS Trading Inc. Used good. Sturgeon Books. Add to Want List. We cannot guarantee that every book is in the library! To help students gain a better understanding of the specific statistical hypothesis tests that are covered throughout the text, author David Howell emphasizes conceptual understanding. This Eighth Edition continues to focus students on two key themes that are the cornerstones of this book's success: the importance of looking at the data before beginning a hypothesis test, and the importance of knowing the relationship between the statistical test in use and the theoretical questions being asked by the experiment.
New and expanded topics--reflecting the evolving realm of statistical methods--include effect size, meta-analysis, and treatment of missing data. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version. Compatible with any devices. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in , this excellent volume makes basic statistical concepts and techniques genuinely meaningful to the beginning student by using a reasonably rigorous developmental treatment that is easily understood.
This Instructor's Manual consists of two parts, each arranged in the order in which the chapters appear in the text. The first part is a collection of over test questions; the second gives answers to the questions in the Student Work book.
Clearly, the Instructor's Manual should never be shown to students. Great care should be taken to see that no student except a graduate assistant who needs it for scoring papers ever gets to borrow it or, worse yet, to "borrow" it. Most of the test questions are multiple choice, but some matehing exercises are also included.
Within each chapter, the multiple choice items are givenfirst. The text page on which the answer is found is given in at the right of the problem. In some items, parts of the item, especially in the wrong alternatives, may not appear untillater chapters. They are OK for final examinations and for some rnidterm examinations, but they obviously cannot be used in their present form assoon as their prirnary topic has been covered in class. The introduction to statistics that psychology students can't afford to be without Understanding statistics is a requirement for obtaining and making the most of a degree in psychology, a fact of life that often takes first year psychology students by surprise.
Filled with jargon-free explanations and real-life examples, Psychology Statistics For Dummies makes the often-confusing world of statistics a lot less baffling, and provides you with the step-by-step instructions necessary for carrying out data analysis.
Psychology Statistics For Dummies: Serves as an easily accessible supplement to doorstop-sized psychology textbooks Provides psychology students with psychology-specific statistics instruction Includes clear explanations and instruction on performing statistical analysis Teaches students how to analyze their data with SPSS, the most widely used statistical packages among students.
Disk includes three data sets for computer assignments that follow each chapter : 1 CHAPMAN data set is from a cholesterol study of adults who were measured on several variables and followed for ten years. To help students gain a better understanding of the specific statistical hypothesis tests that are covered throughout the text, author David Howell emphasizes conceptual understanding.
This Eighth Edition continues to focus students on two key themes that are the cornerstones of this book's success: the importance of looking at the data before beginning a hypothesis test, and the importance of knowing the relationship between the statistical test in use and the theoretical questions being asked by the experiment.
New and expanded topics--reflecting the evolving realm of statistical methods--include effect size, meta-analysis, and treatment of missing data. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in , this excellent volume makes basic statistical concepts and techniques genuinely meaningful to the beginning student by using a reasonably rigorous developmental treatment that is easily understood.
This Instructor's Manual consists of two parts, each arranged in the order in which the chapters appear in the text. The first part is a collection of over test questions; the second gives answers to the questions in the Student Work book. Clearly, the Instructor's Manual should never be shown to students. Great care should be taken to see that no student except a graduate assistant who needs it for scoring papers ever gets to borrow it or, worse yet, to "borrow" it.
Most of the test questions are multiple choice, but some matehing exercises are also included. Within each chapter, the multiple choice items are givenfirst. The text page on which the answer is found is given in at the right of the problem. In some items, parts of the item, especially in the wrong alternatives, may not appear untillater chapters. They are OK for final examinations and for some rnidterm examinations, but they obviously cannot be used in their present form assoon as their prirnary topic has been covered in class.
The introduction to statistics that psychology students can't afford to be without Understanding statistics is a requirement for obtaining and making the most of a degree in psychology, a fact of life that often takes first year psychology students by surprise. Filled with jargon-free explanations and real-life examples, Psychology Statistics For Dummies makes the often-confusing world of statistics a lot less baffling, and provides you with the step-by-step instructions necessary for carrying out data analysis.
Psychology Statistics For Dummies: Serves as an easily accessible supplement to doorstop-sized psychology textbooks Provides psychology students with psychology-specific statistics instruction Includes clear explanations and instruction on performing statistical analysis Teaches students how to analyze their data with SPSS, the most widely used statistical packages among students.
Disk includes three data sets for computer assignments that follow each chapter : 1 CHAPMAN data set is from a cholesterol study of adults who were measured on several variables and followed for ten years. This book is intended for use in the elementary statistics course in Educa tion or in Psychology. While it is primarily designed for use in the first semester of a two-semester course, it may also be used in a one-semester course.
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