Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

by James Jaccard and Michael A. Becker

Book Overview

Now you can become an intelligent consumer of scientific research, without being overwhelmed by the statistics Jaccard and Becker's book teaches readers the basic skills for analyzing data and helps... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534569250
• ISBN13: 9780534569259
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 659 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.5"

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A Great Book

This is an exceptional book. Another review says the book is not good with SPSS, which is strange because the book includes sections in all the main chapters that explains SPSS output. This book is great this way. The disgruntled student reviewer must have skipped these because they appear in special chapter boxes that (bad) students often skip over. The treatment of z scores (which is not all that crucial anyway - when was the last time you saw a z score in a research article) is outstanding, so the review just sounds like sour grapes to me. This book explains statistics intuitively and gives great explanations and examples. It is written very clearly. After reading it, I was able to read and understand journal articles much better. It has special sections to tell you how statistics will be presented in research reports and how to read them. This is a great feature. This book helped me so much and I think it deserves seven stars!

An Excellent Introduction

The book is up-to-date and effectively presents the basic concepts. Deals with current power and sphericity concerns. Example SPSS-keyed analyses and APA-format results sections are especially valuable for research training. Uses post-hoc Tukey HSD test. Separate nonparametric chapters. The authors know their material (not always the case with statistics texts) and they provide a solid (higher-level) introduction. Good selection of topics and fairly thorough. Perhaps a bit wordy at times. One of the best available introductions. From a long-time teacher of statistics with no connection to authors.