Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions

by Chris Spatz

This best-selling statistics book helps your students develop an intuitive understanding of statistical reasoning. Praised for his brevity and clarity of presentation, the author uses a down-to-earth writing style and helpful examples drawn from throughout the social and behavioral sciences, education, nursing/allied health, business, and everyday life. Spatz shows students how to select the proper statistical technique, explain why the technique is appropriate, calculate the statistics, and write an interpretation of the statistical results.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Reference, Mathematics

500 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[Caro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Before seeing this book, statistics didn't come naturally to me. Using this book, I was able to reach an understanding of the subject and of math as a whole that I wouldn't have had otherwise. I even ended up with an A in my behavioral statistics class.

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty awesome. I understand stats fundamentals way better now. The book especially focuses on theoretical and fundamental stuff that I think other stats books kind of gloss over.

[Fahed Al Kerdi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am teaching statistics this semester for students with no statistics or mathematics background. I had an exhausting journey to find a book with topics that are really "basics" for my students, and thankfully this book has helped a lot, it is full with examples and solved problems that explained almost everything basic for a student with no statistics previous knowledge. Th helped me prepared the teaching materials thanks to the enticing writing style of the author. Highly recommended for teachers and students. Believe me, I have been through more than 10 books, non were close to the language nor to the content of this book. It covered all I needed to cover the syllabus.

[cathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

As every professor knows, there's no such thing as a perfect textbook; however, Spatz does a pretty good job of making my job easier when teaching basic stats.