Fundamental Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Howard T. Tokunaga - San Jose State University, USA
The Second Edition includes a new chapter on regression; covers how collected data can be organized, presented and summarized; the process of conducting statistical analyses to test research questions, hypotheses, and issues/controversies; and examines statistical procedures used in research situations that vary in the number of independent variables in the study. Every chapter includes learning checks, such as review questions and summary boxes, to reinforce the content students just learned, and exercises at the end of every chapter help assess their knowledge.
Also new to the Second Edition -- animated video tutorials! Watch the demo video from Chapter 2 now!
Corrections: there are a small number of corrections for the text's Appendix posted here.
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- SPSS datasets are available for use with exercises from the text.
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Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 4 Measures of Variability
Chapter 9 Testing the Difference Between Two Means