Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

by Frederick J. Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau

Does the thought of taking a statistics course make your students nervous? Authors Frederick Gravetter and Larry B. Wallnau use interesting real-world examples and applications to quell student fears and to reveal the ESSENTIALS OF STATISTICS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES. This book helps students get beyond thinking of statistics as merely a course they have to take and come to appreciate it as a set of essential tools that helps us make sense of data in our information-driven world. Gravetter and Wallnau skillfully demonstrate that having a basic understanding of a variety of statistical procedures will help students understand published findings, as well as become savvy consumers of information. The authors employ an intuitive, straightforward writing style as well as numerous learning checks, both of which support students' interest in and understanding of the material.

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks, Science, Nonfiction, College, Read For School, Reference

544 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1991

Reviews

[Pavol Hardos]

I found the plot rather scattered and confusing. Half the characters are Greek, which makes it really hard to follow what’s going on and who is who. In particular, I found Pearson, Spearman and LeRegression to be somewhat underdeveloped, even though one might argue they are central to the story. However, I wouldn’t hesitate recommending this book to any student of human relations, since it has a lot of instructive material to offer here.

[Jennifer]

Even if you've completely forgotten high school math like me, this textbook will catch you up in no time. It really broke statistics down into logical steps with (what I really appreciated) explanations as well as examples.

[Irina Alekseyeva]

Great book. I appreciated a lot the way the information presented in here. It starts with a fairly easy topics, and with each chapter becomes more complicated. If you would find yourself lost in it, I bet you skipped the previous chapter, or a part of it. This is a must have book. I rented it, but going to buy in the future.

[Rich]

A very easy to read beginner-level text on statistical and inferential analysis. Had a lot to say about ANOVA, but not as much about what political scientists might in terms of logit and probit models. But it wasn't written for political scientists.

[Avid Reader and Geek Girl]

I haven't read any other statistics books, and after this I don't think I will. It made no sense at the end it just seemed like they were mixing words and equations.

[Tori Keim]

I'm still reading this book but my brain is focusing on the fact that chapter 13 made a mistake having nothing to do with statistics. They talk about "poisonous spider bites" as an example. They should have said "venomous spider bites" dumb thing to dwell on I know. But if you bite it and it kills you it's poisonous, if it bites you and you die it's venomous. Sorry my brain is hyper focusing on this.

[Shannon ♡ The Shann Theory]

Man, this textbook is rough. I mean, all math text books are rough, but this one in particular! My professor did a WAY better job teaching me statistics than this book will ever do. This would get 0 stars, if it was allowed.

[Emma Sonnen]

required reading Carleton university PSYC2002

information was super digestible. i found the examples were spread out really well which helped me to understand the topics more than just reading about them. stats was way less scary that i’d anticipated??!?!🥹🥹🥹🥹

[Helen Werner]

Gave an excellent intro and roadmap to advanced concepts. I found the material mostly easy to understand and exercises were appropriately challenging- I wound up with an A in my class and only used this book/cengage to study.

[Cass]

This book is a keeper. It's the first time that I was truly able to understand statistics. I passed stats with a grade A!

[Nicole]

Oi! Stats is tough.

[Rebecca House]

All jokes aside this was one of the better textbooks I’ve read. It presented the information clearly and concisely, with helpful examples and analogies.

[Dasha]

well written but i just hate any form of math

[jessica]

it's a statistics textbook

[Anna]

Good review of basic statistics with good examples and sufficient problems to practice.

[beren]

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[Faith Lee]

Not one to review textbooks, but i really appreciated the wording and structure. It was very straight forward to follow and digest

[Ali]

well I didn't really read the chapter in this book, it was a textbook required for my psych stats class, I read a little bit of the chapters when I needed to clear up stuff, but the thing that helped the most were all the tables. I did have the online version, but as a textbook, from what I did read, it explained things really well and gave through examples for topics that made sense. but I think the thing that helped me the most were the aplia assignments that go along with it. I feel like I learned the most from those than anything else. the lectures in class helped too, but overall the aplia assignments made the contact sink in and stick into my long term memory

[Willow]

This is a fantastic statistics tutorial. Well written, makes it easy to learn. Fun!

[Christine]

It was good. Widened my stats knowledge. I am glad I don't have to read it anymore n

[Mneera]

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[Lisa]

Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Science by Frederick J Gravetter (2007)

[Mills College Library]

300.15195 G7769 2011