Comprehending Behavioral Statistics

by HURLBURT

• ISBN13: 9780534601027
• ISBN10: 0534601022
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-08
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Hurlburt's text offers an innovative approach to teaching and understanding statistics. Many students consider statistics their most intimidating subject, but Hurlburt uses a variety of learner-friendly approaches to help students to think clearly and confidently about statistical concepts. Students find his writing style inviting and clear; faculty find it exceptionally accurate and up to date. He provides a complete set of interactive audio/visual lectures (called "lectlets") to engage students who find that hearing enhances their comprehension. Hurlburt deftly employs repetition and a progressive, cumulative integration of concepts, so students build upon what they learn as they progress through the course. Hurlburt's unique "eyeball-estimation techniques," which garnered high praise in previous editions, helps students gain experience in making educated guesses! New to this edition, COMPREHENDING BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS, THIRD EDTION, includes a FREE Personal Trainer CD--This hands-on CD contains 43 interactive audio/visual lectures (called "lectlets") covering all the concepts in the text. Students use the lectlets to prepare for class, to clarify concepts they didn't understand in class, to substitute for a missed class, and to review for exams. The FREE Personal Trainer also includes ESTAT, Hurlburt's unique eyeball-estimation software, which enables students to make an educated guess about the magnitude of a statistic without the use of a calculator or statistical tables. ESTAT includes datagen, the easiest-to-use statistical computational software. The Personal Trainer CD also includes interactive electronic review and multiple choice quizzes. The Personal Trainer CD is a dynamic and useful "after-class tutor" for any student struggling with statistics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(13)
Variables and Their Measurement	14	(14)
Frequency Distributions	28	(26)
Measures of Central Tendency	54	(23)
Measures of Variation	77	(27)
Using Frequency Distributions	104	(34)
Samples and the Sampling Distribution of the Means	138	(23)
Parameter Estimation	161	(25)
Evaluating Hypotheses	186	(19)
Inferences About Means of Single Samples	205	(33)
Inferences About Means of Two Independent Samples	238	(37)
Inferences About Means of Two Dependent Samples	275	(26)
Statistical Power	301	(23)
Inferences About Two or More Means: Analysis of Variance	324	(43)
Post Hoc Tests, A Priori Tests, Repeated-Measures ANOVA, and Two-way ANOVA	367	(30)
Measures of the Relationship Between Two Variables: Correlation	397	(33)
Prediction: Linear Regression	430	(39)
Some Nonparametric Statistical Tests	469	(108)
References
APPENDICES
A Statistical Tables	509	(18)
B Review of Basic Arithmetic	527	(8)
C Summary of Statistical Formulas Used in This Text	535	(10)
D Answers to Selected Exercises	545	(32)
List of Symbols and Glossary	577	(6)
Index	583