Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences [Hardcover]

James Jaccard (Author), Michael A. Becker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 29, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0534569250 | ISBN-13: 978-0534569259 | Edition: 4

Now you can become intelligent consumers of scientific research, without being overwhelmed by the statistics! Jaccard and Becker's book teaches readers the basic skills for analyzing data and helps them become intelligent consumers of scientific information. Praised for its real-life applications, the book tells readers when to use a particular statistic, why they should use it, and how the statistic should be computed and interpreted. Because many readers, given a set of data, cannot determine where to begin in answering relevant research questions, the authors explicate the issues involved in selecting a statistical test. Each statistical technique is introduced by giving instances where the test is most typically applied followed by an interesting research example (each example is taken from psychology literature).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 688 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 4 edition (October 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534569250
• ISBN-13: 978-0534569259
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #494,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Introduction, June 19, 2003

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This review is from: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Hardcover)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book, July 11, 2006

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M. Stein (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Hardcover)

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!

3.0 out of 5 stars Avoid, September 25, 2010

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This review is from: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Hardcover)

Most likley a class will require the purchase of this book. Otherwise, avoid the book in favor of other choices. The book teaches in the form of text blocks and requires much of the homework questions in essentially essay/written form. Lack of visuals makes the book terrible for a visual learner. Even the professor would admit some of the reference tables are unessesarily detailed and confusing. However, the depth of explaination and the written answers will allow you to really get what's going on with the equations once you know what the heck you are doing in the first place...