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Basic Statistical Analysis [Hardcover]

Richard C. Sprinthall (Author)

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Publication Date: 2 Aug 2006 | ISBN-10: 0205495974 | ISBN-13: 978-0205495979 | Edition: 8

The material in this user-friendly text is presented as simply as possible to ensure that students will gain a solid understanding of statistical procedures and analysis.

 

The goal of this book is to demystify and present statistics in a clear, cohesive manner. The student is presented with rules of evidence and the logic behind those rules. The book is divided into three major units: Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, and Advanced Topics in Inferential Statistics.

 

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This user-friendly text demystifies statistics by helping students understand the rules of evidence and the logic behind those rules.  The book is divided into three major units:  Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, and Advanced Topics in Inferential Statistics.  Students’ academic success is reinforced with an extensive glossary, problems and test questions throughout the text, and a summary at the end of each chapter.

 

Here’s what’s new in the Eighth Edition:

  • Incorporation of SPSS throughout the text
  • New “Spotlight on SPSS” boxes, detailing how to use SPSS to do each example shown
  • New section on reading SPSS’s scientific notation
  • New section on SPSS’s use of bootstrapping, jack-knifing, and the Monte Carlo method
  • More emphasis on research strategies involved in forensic psychology and criminal justice
  • New section on how the general linear model can be interpreted in the context of ANOVA
  • New section on how to treat tie scores when doing the Spearman correlation
  • New section on reading percentages and calculating per-capita rates

INSTRUCTORS:  DON’T MISS THIS GREAT VALUEPACK OPTION! 

SPSS for Windows Student Version CD-ROM can be packaged with this text.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Important Source For Journalists 15 Jan 2007
By TedByrne - Published on Amazon.com
As a business magazine editor I find we frequently have to evaluate statistical material. My writers are not uniformly prepared in statistical analysis. They don't have to be. Basic Statistical Analysis (8th Edition) is more than a textbook. We use Dr. Sprinthall's book as our interpreter. We find it authoritative but more importantly, accessible. The author is an effective communicator who allows us to understand the techniques we need without the eye glazing numbness of having to enter a world of baffling jargon, impenetrable examples, and little Greek letters lying on their sides waiting to bite us. I am glad we came upon his works.

By the way, you definitely DO NOT need to be a math major to understand what Sprinthall's up to in this book. I recommend this edition of Statistical Analysis particularly to business and political writers along with every newsroom in the world. Anyone who is wrestling with assertions which are purported to be "proven" by an accompanying body of statistiical "evidence" should have this book on their shelves. Think of it as self-defense.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Why Students Should Love this Textbook 14 Oct 2009
By iqhope - Published on Amazon.com
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I am a PhD student and, of course - my bad luck, statistics courses are required - on which one's dissertation and research should be based.

I dreaded the course, dreaded having to open the textbook to begin, and when I finally did - the first page got me laughing to where I had to read some of the author's notes to my husband, who also got to cackling right along with me.

I have to say - this is one of the most concisely written, easy to understand, and lay person written math based textbooks I've ever encountered. My statistics course was changed at the last minute into an asynchronous course, and that pretty much meant most of the learning is on one's own shoulders.

This is possible with this textbook. Where there are a few little typos and burbs in the textbook, otherwise - the definitions are clear, the anecdotes make the content understandable, and even though I spend hours laboring over the math, the textbook has helped me 'teach myself' the content.

This is one textbook I will end up KEEPING versus reselling!
3.0 out of 5 stars It's a Text Book. 4 Mar 2013
By Nathan Morehouse - Published on Amazon.com
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This book is probably the best one out there for incompetent stats students like me. Buy the text for your stats class even if the class has another text assigned.
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