Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

by Susan A. Nolan, Heinzen

Nolan and Heinzen offer an introduction to the basics of statistics that is uniquely suited for behavioral science students, with coverage anchor to real-world stories, a highly visual approach, helpful mathematical support, and step-by-step examples. The new edition focuses on emerging trends that are redefining contemporary behavioral statistics, while adding an remarkable new online feature, Which Test is Best?, in the book’s online component, LaunchPad.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction, School, Psychology

736 pages, Paperback

First published February 12, 2010

Reviews

[Melina · Rating 1 out of 5]

I absolutely HATED this statistics class and it's teacher. As for the book, WTF was up with example 6.2?!?!?! There wasn't anything else you could possibly use as an example??? People don't hate statistics enough, let's torture them with their phobia too.
The rest of the book was okay except for all the unnecessary repetition. The definition is in the paragraph in bold blue, but let's repeat it at the end of the paragraph. Let's do that with all the formulas too. Overall, nowhere near the best textbook they could've made.

[Savannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pretty good book as far as textbooks go. I know it's thanks to this book that I got an A in statistics. It's pretty easy to understand and the chapters aren't too long which I think is important when it comes to textbooks. Also after each section within the chapter the book has check your learning sections which have conceptual questions as well as statistical problems for you to work out and all the answers for these sections are in the back. The book also has the typical end of the chapter problems as well with odd answers in the back. There are definitely enough problems to get practice with and lots of examples placed throughout the text. My only problem with this book is that due to differences in rounding sometimes the answer the book had were different from my own and at least twice I found wrong answers in the back. Overall though definitely a worthwhile textbook.

[Jacob Bornheimer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really well written and easy to follow introduction to psychological statistics. Very helpful in the class I was taking and I read most of it. I'm even considering keeping this textbook for further reference...

[Zachary · Rating 5 out of 5]

an excellent introduction to statistics. no instructor required.