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- A clear and accessible statistics text-- now fully updated and revised Now with a new chapter showing students how to apply the right test in the right way to yield the most accurate and true result, Explaining Psychological Statistics, Fourth Edition offers students an engaging introduction to the field.
- About the Author: BARRY H. COHEN, PhD, is a clinical associate professor in the department of psychology at New York University, where he has been teaching statistics for more than twenty-five years.
- 848 Pages
- Psychology, Statistics
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About the Book
"Now in its 4th edition, this popular and comprehensive graduate-level statistics text offers students an easy to grasp and non-intimidating approach to statistics for the non-mathematician. The text provides practical coverage of SPSS in every chapter, including screen shots, procedures, exercises, and direction on how to interpret SPSS output. The use of common data sets throughout the book aid in student comprehension. Now with a new chapter showing students how to apply the right test in the right way to come out with the most accurate and true result, the new edition continues to offer students a lively and engaging introduction to the field"--Book Synopsis
A clear and accessible statistics text-- now fully updated and revised
Now with a new chapter showing students how to apply the right test in the right way to yield the most accurate and true result, Explaining Psychological Statistics, Fourth Edition offers students an engaging introduction to the field. Presenting the material in a logically flowing, non-intimidating way, this comprehensive text covers both introductory and advanced topics in statistics, from the basic concepts (and limitations) of null hypothesis testing to mixed-design ANOVA and multiple regression.
The Fourth Edition covers:
- Basic statistical procedures
- Frequency tables, graphs, and distributions
- Measures of central tendency and variability
- One- and two-sample hypothesis tests
- Hypothesis testing
- Interval estimation and the t distribution
From the Back Cover
Praise for the previous edition of Explaining Psychological Statistics
"I teach a master's level, one-semester statistics course, and it is a challenge to find a textbook that is at the right level. Barry Cohen's book is the best one I have found. . . . I like the fact that the chapters have different sections that allow the professor to decide how much depth of coverage to include in his/her course. . . . This is a strong and improved edition of an already good book."
--Karen Caplovitz Barrett, PhD, Professor, and Assistant Department Head of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University
"The quality is uniformly good. . . . This is not the first statistics text I have read but it is one of the best."
--Michael Dosch, PhD, MS, CRNA, Associate Professor and Chair, Nurse Anesthesia, University of Detroit Mercy
A clear and accessible statistics text--now fully updated and revised
Now with a new chapter showing students how to apply the right test in the right way to yield the most accurate and true result, Explaining Psychological Statistics, Fourth Edition offers students an engaging introduction to the field. Presenting the material in a logically flowing, non-intimidating way, this comprehensive text covers both introductory and advanced topics in statistics, from the basic concepts (and limitations) of null hypothesis testing to mixed-design ANOVA and multiple regression.
The Fourth Edition covers:
- Basic statistical procedures
- Frequency tables, graphs, and distributions
- Measures of central tendency and variability
- One- and two-sample hypothesis tests
- Hypothesis testing
- Interval estimation and the t distribution
About the Author
BARRY H. COHEN, PhD, is a clinical associate professor in the department of psychology at New York University, where he has been teaching statistics for more than twenty-five years. He is the coauthor of two other successful statistics books from Wiley: Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Seventh Edition and Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
