Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

by Gregory J. Privitera

Employing the hallmark pedagogical support of his successful comprehensive text, award-winning author, teacher, and advisor Gregory J. Privitera offers a brief and engaging introduction to the field with Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences . Practical examples, integrated SPSS® coverage and screenshots, and numerous learning tools make intimidating concepts accessible. Students will welcome Privitera's clear instruction, conversational voice, and application of statistics to current, real-life research problems.

564 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 16, 2014

Reviews

[Jim Razinha · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the textbook assigned for my son's statistics class, and... it's a textbook. I'm a mechanical engineer, with math up to intermediate partial differential equations under my belt and I told him there's a reason I've never taken a statistics class, but I was curious. I admit I didn't work all of the problems - enough to check ...and find some errors - one was computational; a formula for variance is correct in the text, but wrong in the problem (but correct in the answer, go figure). And this is the 13th edition.

Bottom line, this is serviceable if you have to use this stuff. And really, only academics will. And just because the title says it's for behavioral sciences, that's just because of the way the problems are cast that way. Models don't apply to individuals, rather groups at best. This is base level statistics and I'm still glad I never had to take a class in it.

[Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this for one of my classes. I'm not a math person so it was a huge struggle. Thanks to Heavenly Fathers help I got through it and passed with a much better grade than I thought I would earn.