Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
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Beschreibung
This core textbook offers an introduction to the basics of statistics that is uniquely suited to behavioural science students. The book offers coverage anchored to real-world stories, a highly visual approach, helpful mathematical support, and useful step-by-step examples. The new edition also focuses on emerging trends that are redefining contemporary behavioural statistics.
This textbook helps undergraduate behavioural science students taking modules in Research Methods and Statistics get to grips with a subject they often find challenging in an enjoyable and engaging way.
The book can also be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which offers innovative media content, curated and organised for easy assignability. LaunchPad's intuitive interface presents quizzing, flashcards, animations and much more to make learning actively engaging.
- Highly visual approach, helpful mathematical support and step-by-step examples
- New edition addresses emerging trends, particularly those that are redefining contemporary behavioural statistics, to give students a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the field. These trends are: Visual Displays of Data, Crowdsourcing, Reproducibility, The 'New Statistics' and Bayesian Analysis
- New online feature in LaunchPad: 'Choosing the Correct Statistical Test'
- Pedagogy that first emphasises mastering concepts, and then gives students multiple step-by-step examples of the process of each statistical method
- Extensive Check Your Learning exercises throughout to help students consolidate their understanding of the content before moving on to new concepts in the chapter
- End-of-chapter exercises with four tiers (Clarifying the Concepts; Calculating the Statistics; Applying the Concepts; and Putting it All Together) to help students fully understand the content and concepts of each chapter.
- Explores five major emerging trends in behavioural statistics: Visual displays of data; crowdsourcing; reproducibility; the 'new statistics' and Bayesian analysis.
- Newly rewritten exercises in every chapter, to incorporate new data and findings
- Revised chapter on Visual Displays of Data now with a more “how to” approach to creating effective visual displays
- StatsClips video tutorials on LaunchPad, which combine interesting scenarios, dynamic animation, and clear explanations.
Autor*in
Susan Nolan