Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

by Susan A. Nolan, Thomas Heinzen

Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences by Susan Nolan and Thomas Heinzen is a concise, readable text that covers key statistical concepts. Exploring its wide variety of creative, step-by-step examples, students using Essentials will learn how to choose the appropriate statistical test, understand its conceptual significance, and calculate each statistic. With inviting examples using real-world data, the text teaches students to apply concepts and formulas to statistical questions that they will encounter in their academic lives and outside the classroom.
The clear, accessible explanations highlight a conceptual understanding of statistics that minimize the mathematical. Nolan and Heinzen’s brief text also provides the most opportunities for students to evaluate their understanding, with three tiers of exercises —Clarifying the Concepts, Calculating the Statistic, and Applying the Concepts— integrated after each major topic as well as at the end of each chapter.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction, School, Psychology

576 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.