Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Designed to engage students and lower their x201C;fear factorx201D;, Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences is a concise, user-friendly text that prepares students to use statistics in the real world. Providing depth and breadth of statistical tests, the text focuses on choosing the appropriate statistical analysis, and shows how to interpret the output and present the results.Basic descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and basic inferential statistics are covered along with more advanced topics such as correlation, regression, non-parametric statistics, multivariate statistics, and general linear modeling. The authors emphasize choosing the appropriate statistical test throughxA0;conceptual material, assumptions, homework exercises, and a helpful x201C;choose-the-appropriate-testx201D; flowchart. They focus on the interpretation of results from both Excel and SPSS outputs, and also demonstrate how to do important calculationsxA0;by hand to help students grasp the underlying concepts. The book includes end-of-chapter exercises that help students fully grasp the content of each chapter.