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Answering Questions With Statistics

June 2013 | 456 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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By making introductory statistics interesting through comparing data on today's student generation with their parents' generation, and asking students to consider how people change as they grow older, the book uses data on subjective beliefs (such as freedom of speech and abortion) as well objective characteristics (years of schooling, marital status) to teach basic statistics using SPSS.

 
About the Author
 
Preface
 
Part 1. Getting Started
 
Chapter 1. Introduction
 
Chapter 2. Data Sets
 
Part 2. Descriptive Statistics: Answering Questions About Your Data
 
Chapter 3. Frequency Tables and Univariate Charts
 
Chapter 4. Central Tendency and Dispersion
 
Chapter 5. Creating New Variables
 
Chapter 6. Comparing Group Means
 
Chapter 7. Crosstab Tables
 
Chapter 8. Nominal and Ordinal Measures of Association
 
Chapter 9. Pearson's Correlation and Bivariate Regression
 
Chapter 10. Multiple Regression
 
Part 3. Inferential Statistics: Answering Questions About Populations
 
Chapter 11. Sampling Distributions and Normal Distributions
 
Chapter 12. Hypothesis Testing and One-Sample t Tests
 
Chapter 13. Paired- and Independent-Samples t Tests
 
Chapter 14. Analysis of Variance
 
Chapter 15. Chi-Square
 
Chapter 16. Hypothesis Testing With Measures of Association and Regression
 
Glossary
 
Index

Ordered for Library. Solid book, but not the exact fit that I was looking for.

Dr John Hedgcock
GSTILE, Monterey Institute of International Studies
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Not exactly what I needed. It is a good book

Dr Marie Leiner
Psychiatry Dept, Texas Technology University Health Science - El Paso
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Still under review

Dr Mark Malisa
School Of Education, College of St Rose
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This book explains in laymen manner about the application of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics in social science research. Excellent for those who want an instant knowledge about statistics.

Dr Mohd Ali Samsudin
School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia
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It was determined this book did not meet the needs of the course.

Dr Sandra Kapoor
Collins College, California State Polytechnic - Pomona
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like Salkind better

Dr T Alexander
Social Sciences Div, Texas Wesleyan University
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This decision was taken with the biostats prefessor. We need a book that is more oriented toward medical students, using medical issues and problems.

Dr Tania Arana
Medical Education, Texas Technology University Health Science - El Paso
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Highly recommended. Layout not busy and support commentary with application

Miss Tracey Barnfather
Midwifery Division, Northampton University
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This text makes a boring and in some cases a scary subject more accessable through this basic but clear understandable statistics.

Mr David Corry-Bass
CCLD / H&SC , South Leicestershire College
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Very good book, ideally pitched for undergraduates to get to grips with. Enough detail to inform the reader but not too much to put off.

I would recommend adding more on different group and paired comparisons though. The procedure for different ANOVAs and MANOVAs is very different and one that many students struggle with. Maybe in the second edition?

Mr John Perry
Sport, Health, Leisure and Nutrition, Leeds Trinity and All Saints
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