Using and Interpreting Statistics in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

by William E. Wagner III

Using and Interpreting Statistics in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences is designed to be paired with any undergraduate introduction to research methods text used by students in a variety of disciplines. It introduces students to statistics at the conceptual level—examining the meaning of statistics, and why researchers use a particular statistical technique, rather than computational skills. Focusing on descriptive statistics, and some more advanced topics such as tests of significance, measures of association, and regression analysis, this brief, inexpensive text is the perfect companion to help students who have not yet taken an introductory statistics course or are confused by the statistics used in the articles they are reading.

234 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 28, 2018

Reviews

[Gustavo Garcia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to read overall and with quick explanations.

Spotted a couple of mistakes when explaining the directional hypothesis in a graphical form and when explaining the type 2 error in the later chapters (my mistake was not to write down the exact pages where).