The best-selling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics is now in its Fifth Edition. Continuing its hallmark use of humor and common sense, this text helps students develop an understanding of an often intimidating and difficult subject with an approach that is informative, personable, and clear. Author Neil J. Salkind takes students through various statistical procedures, beginning with a brief historical introduction to statistics, correlation and graphical representation of data, and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance. The book provides examples using SPSS and includes reviews of measurement topics, such as reliability, validity, and also introductory non-parametric statistics. With more examples than ever before, the new edition offers a new Real World Stats feature at the end of each chapter. In addition, an enhanced interactive eBook edition (available spring 2014) features animated chapter introductions, quick quizzes, video clips, and more. The Fifth Edition is also the basis for the Excel edition for the book of the same name.
Now in its third edition, this title teaches an often intimidating and difficult subject in a way that is informative, personable, and clear.
Well, the normal curve (also called a bell-shaped curve, or bell curve) is a visual representation of a distribution of scores that has three characteristics. Each of these characteristics is illustrated in Figure 8.1.
Opening with an introduction to Excel 2016, including coverage of how to use functions and formulas, this edition also shows students how to install the Excel Data Analysis Tools option to access a host of useful analytical techniques.
Now the bestselling SPSS® and Excel® versions are joined by a text for use with the R software, Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics Using R. New co-author Leslie A. Shaw carries forward Salkind’s signature humorous, ...
This bundle includes Neil J. Salkind′s Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics 7e (Paperback) and SAGE IBM(R) SPSS(R) Statistics v24.0 Student Version.
This edition shows the students how to install the Excel Analysis ToolPak option (free) to earn access to a host of new and very useful analytical techniques.
Part II of the text contains fifteen Analysis Toolpak tools, each explained using the same two-page spread design as for the functions. Excel novices and experts alike will find this text not only practical but easy to use and engaging.
Thank you to the following reviewers for their time and input: T. John Alexander, Texas Wesleyan University; Jamie V. Brown, Mercer University; Yeonsoo Kim, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Linda Martinez, California State ...
The student Study Guide to accompany the bestselling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, Fifth Edition helps students develop an understanding of an often intimidating and difficult subject with an approach that is ...
Built on the premise that anyone can learn to use the R software, this book emphasizes using R to do useful things like writing papers and reports, creating graphs, and conducting simple data analysis.