A comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to statistics for
behavioral science students–revised and updated
Refined over seven editions by master teachers, this book gives
instructors and students alike clear examples and carefully crafted
exercises to support the teaching and learning of statistics for
both manipulating and consuming data.
One of the most popular and respected statistics texts in the
behavioral sciences, the Seventh Edition of Introductory Statistics
for the Behavioral Sciences has been fully revised. The new edition
presents all the topics students in the behavioral sciences need in
a uniquely accessible and easy-to-understand format, aiding in the
comprehension and implementation of the statistical analyses most
commonly used in the behavioral sciences.
The Seventh Edition features:
* A continuous narrative that clearly explains statistics while
tracking a common data set throughout, making the concepts
unintimidating and memorable, and providing a framework that
connects all of the topics and allows for easy comparison of
different statistical analyses
* Coverage of important aspects of research design throughout the
text, such as the ‘correlation is not causality’ principle
* Updated and annotated SPSS output at the end of each chapter
with step-by-step instructions
* Updated examples and exercises
* An expanded website, at www.wiley.com/go/welkowitz, with test
bank, chapter quizzes, and Power Point slides for instructors, as
well as a second website for students with additional basic math
coverage, math review exercises, a study guide, a set of additional
SPSS exercises, and more downloadable data sets
Sobre el autor
JOAN WELKOWITZ, Ph D, (deceased) was professor of psychology at
New York University. She directed the graduate clinical program for
ten years. She taught courses in methodology and statistics at both
the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than twenty-five
years and?was the primary author of Introductory Statistics for the
Behavioral Sciences.
BARRY H. COHEN, Ph D, is the Director of the master’s program in
psychology at New York University, where he has been teaching
statistics for more than twenty years. He is the coauthor of two
other successful statistics books from Wiley–Explaining
Psychological Statistics, Third Edition, and Essentials of
Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
R. BROOKE LEA, Ph D, is professor and chair of the Psychology
Department at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.?His research
publications concern the comprehension processes that occur during
reading of text and poetry.
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