Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Science
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Beschreibung
With captivating storytelling, real-world examples, image-and graphic-rich design, accessible mathematics, and step-by-step worked examples, this textbook introduces students to the why and how of statistical practice in the behavioural sciences, helping them break through common barriers to success in the course. This new edition of their briefer textbook offers fresh exercises throughout, stronger reinforcement of the material's relevance and mathematical requirements and more help with creating visual displays.
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.
- 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.
Helpful Pedagogical Guidance Through Each Chapter including: Before You Go On which begins each chapter illustrating the tools students need for the forthcoming material and Step by Step Examples from across the behavioural sciences which guide students through each concept
An Unmatched Number of Practice Exercises
Check Your Learning sections after every major topic and the End-of-chapter Exercises provide three tiers of questions
Autor*in
Thomas Heinzen