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Statistical Methods for Psychology (The Duxbury series in statistics and decision sciences)
by David C. Howell
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Pws Pub Co (1992-01)
ISBN: 0534929559
EAN: 9780534929558
Dewy Decimal #: 519.502415
Hardcover: 693 pages
Edition: 3rd
SKU: C093MOP
Condition: New
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Product Description
This text highlights statistical methods useful for the behavioural sciences from a practitioner's perspective. The format and presentation of statistics should encourage students to research and analyze data. Students are exposed to the power and time-saving features of computer software with examples of output from Minitab, SPSS, BMDP, SAS, and others. Examples and exercises use real data to motivate students and show them the importance of statistical techniques in behavioural research. The edition has been improved by increasing computer coverage and integration, including graphical representations of computer output. Sections on probability, chi-square and multiple regression have been revised for greater clarity.
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Customer Reviews
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Excellent!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-04-13
A wonderful introduction to a wide variety of statistical methods useful in the social sciences. Examples are well-developed, and the writing is both clear and inviting. Bravo.
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review on statistical methods for Psychology
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-11-15
nice book with wide cover of all the statistical techniques and introduction about how to apply the statisical methods with different software. Also, the writing style is friendly and it could be easily understood.
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Difficult text, much better available
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-07-17
1 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a difficult text, not only due to overly complex mathmatical coverage, but also due to the fact that answers are only given for half the questions asked in the textbook! That's right, only odd numbered are answered, making it impossible to check your work unless you purchase an Instructors Edition. It also focuses heavily on Minitab, and leaves out SPSS coverage which is the most widely used stats program for psychology. A much better approach is given in Statistics For People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, which is dead simple and focuses on SPSS.
Cavet emptor, buyer beware!
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It's okay
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-04-22
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is outrageously priced, with the nasty textbook manufacturer trick of putting out a new edition so you can't dump it at the bookstore. Other than that it is okay. It's laid out in a neat paragraph format and the text is actually not a strain on my eyes.
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Outstanding Text and Reference not for typical beginners
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-22
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Howell's book has been around now for 6 editions - you simply do not get to that stage of publishing a technical book without doing many things very well. I have taught advanced statistics to graduate students and professionals in a variety of programs and settings for over 20 years, and
for an advanced basic course in statistics for graduate students or for knowledgeable professionals, I would not teach from any other text for this level of statistics. If graduate students understood most of the content of this text, they would be better equiped researchers than most currently are for sure. It is true that if this book were to be your first treatment of statistics or if your first course was really not all that thorough or was a long time ago, this text might be difficult for you - but not because the text is poorly done. I also refer this text to graduate students, new Ph.D.s, experienced Ph.D.s who are not statistical experts, and other researchers as a desk reference, and I keep it on my desk and keep a copy in my research lab for my research assistants. Graduate students have always consistently strongly praised the book at the end of the semesters when I have used it. Frankly, I suspect other reviewers of this book who give it low marks have ulterior motives such as steering folks to other specific texts. In this veign, I do not personally know the author, but the author David Howell is a highly respected psychologist with true expertise in statistical methods and who served as chair of his department prior up to his relatively recent retirement at the University of Vermont.
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