Practical Statistics for Students: An Introductory Text [Paperback]

This bestselling textbook is designed to help students understand parametric and nonparametric statistical methods so that they can tackle research problems successfully. By working through this book carefully and systematically, those who may not have a strong background in mathematics will gain a thorough grasp of the most widely used statistical methods in the social sciences.

Practical Statistics for Students is an introductory text designed to help students understand parametric and nonparametric statistical methods so that they can tackle research problems successfully. By working through this book carefully and systematically, students who may not have a strong background in mathematics will gain a thorough grasp of the most widely used statistical methods in the social sciences.

A standard format is used throughout. It consists of: a tabular presentation of research design; a concrete example of the research design using social and/or life science data; the example is then worked through using an appropriate statistical test and illustrating each stage of the computation in full.

The text includes a detailed exposition of the analysis of 2 x 2, 2 x k, and k x n contingency tables.This book will be useful for me to use as a resource with the few students who really want to know about how the statistics work. It is too mathematical for most of my applied social science students who will not have studied mathematics beyond GCSE grade B tier.This text is highly recommended for students studying statistics in applied sciences as it makes use of the formulae that are used in the syllabus and is written very well.Unfortunately the language is too complicated for our non-native English speakers.Introduction
Measurement Concepts
Classifying Data
Presenting Data
Measuring Typical Achievement
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