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 book focuses on emerging trends that are redefining contemporary behavioural statistics.This textbook helps you get to grips with a challenging subject 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.
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 book focuses on emerging trends that are redefining contemporary behavioural statistics.This textbook helps you get to grips with a challenging subject 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.
- The book emphasizes mastering concepts, and then gives students multiple step-by-step examples of the process of each statistical method, including the mathematical calculations.
- Extensive Check Your Learning exercises at the end of each section of the chapter help students master content before moving on to new concepts in the chapter.
- Covers the five major trends in behavioural statistics:Visual displays of data, crowd sourcing, reproducibility, The “New Statistics", and Bayesian analysis.
New_to_this_edition
- Includes a brand new chapter on choosing the right statistical test and reporting statistical results.
- The new Data Ethics feature addresses the issues surrounding outdated research practices and introduces students to principles related to all stages of working with data.
- Available in LaunchPad, the new Interpreting Statistical Results activity asks students to interpret statistical data from a recent research project to sharpen this important skill.
Undergraduate Psychology students taking modules in Statistics
Autor*in
Susan Nolan
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