For one quarter/semester courses that focus on the basics in statistics or combine statistics with research methods. The fifth edition of Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences builds off an already well established approach, emphasizing the intuitive, deemphasizing the mathematical, and explaining everything in direct, simple language, but also goes beyond these principles to further student understanding. By using definitional formulas to emphasize the concepts of statistics, rather than rote memorization, students work problems in a way that keeps them constantly aware of the underlying logic of what they are doing.
Chapter 1 : Displaying the order in a group of numbers using tables and graphs
Chapter 2 : The mean, veriance, standard deviation, and Z scores
Chapter 3 : Correlation and prtdicyion
Chapter 4 : Some key ingredients for infrental statistics : The normal curve, sample versus population, and probability
Chapter 5 : Introduction to hypothesis testing
Chapter 6 : Hypothesis tests with means of samples
Chapter 7 : Making sense of statistical singnificance : Effect size and statistical power
Chapter 8 : Introduction to the t test: single sample and dependent means
Chapter 9 : The t the for independent means
Chapter 10 : Introduction to the analysis of variance
Chapter 11 : Chi-square tests and strategies when population distributions are not normal
Chapter 12 : Applying statistical methods in in your own research project