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Anonymous
Posted Sat Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2008
I am a physician and i recently attempted to work with this book for a course - do not be fooled by the title!! the book is simplistic and user friendly in spirit, but, perhaps too much so. As you work forward, the text and computer applications become cumbersome and difficult and i found that the author could not anticipate what i, the student, needed to comprehend. I would suggest a more mature, realistic and better organized text - i still hate statistics after working with this text! md, new york city
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Posted Sun Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2005
I am one of those people who (thinks she) hates statistics. I had been struggling with statistical concepts all semester and stumbled upon this book yesterday (actually an older version of it) at the library while studying for the final exam I will take this week. All I can say is that I wish I had discovered it sooner. Things that made absolutely no sense to me before, are now very clear. I feel so much more confident about taking the exam this week. The book tells you what you need to know in a very basic way and is actually fun to read. I am going to suggest to the professor that she use it as a complement to the required textbooks or at least recommend it as elective reading for others like me who haven't taken a math class in many years and are apprehensive about statistics.
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Posted Sat Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2005
As a doctoral student (who was an art major), I did not have a strong collegiate background in mathematics, so I turned to books like this one to supplement my stats courses. It was an invaluable asset in helping me gain a foundational understanding.
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Posted Wed Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 2008
This book comes with the student version of SPSS on CD. This student version is limited to sample size of 1500 subjects, but that is perfectly fine for anyone taking an SPSS course. Yes, the text is simplistic, but it does work, and is perfectly readable. As value for money, this book WITH its software is excellent.
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Posted Tue Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2002
As a graduate of the University of Missouri it pains me greatly to say anything nice about someone associated with the Univ of Kansas (for those not familiar with the Midwest think USC-UCLA, Michigan-Michigan State, Florida-Florida State). However, this book truly is a great guide to grasping the basic fundamentals of statistics. Over 15 years had passed since I had taken statistics so I really had zero foundation to build upon. Fortunately, this book got me up to speed very quickly (necessary for a new job managing people who do this stuff for a living) and the chapters do build upon one another in a way that you can maintain a grasp of the big picture as you drill down on the individual chapters. I know it cost more than some of the "dummy" books but content and read are way superior.
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"Your book has changed my perception and attitude towards statistics. It is very well written, the language is completely user friendly and the progression of new concepts within each chapter is fantastic. Although my class is only on chapter 5 at this point, I have found my interest in the concepts and order in which you introduce them becoming greater. I thank you with very much appreciation as I was someone who dreaded taking statistics and thought I hated it!" - Jessica Maes, graduate student
The Fourth Edition of Neil J. Salkind’s bestselling text introduces students to the fundamentals of basic statistics in an informative, personable, and unintimidating way. The author expertly guides students through various statistical procedures, beginning with basic descriptive statistics and correlation and graphical representation of data and ending with inferential techniques including analysis of variance.
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Table of Contents
Part I. Yippee! I’m in Statistics Chapter 1. Statistics or Sadistics? It’s Up to You Part II. Sigma Freud and Descriptive Statistics Chapter 2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages Chapter 3. Vive la Différence: Understanding Variability Chapter 4. A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words Chapter 5. Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients Chapter 6. Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity Part III. Taking Chances for Fun and Profit Chapter 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions Chapter 8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts Part IV. Significantly Different: Using Inferential Statistics Chapter 9. Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me Chapter 10. Only The Lonely: The One Sample Z test Chapter 11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups Chapter 12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups Chapter 13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance Chapter 14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance Chapter 15. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient Chapter 16. Predicting Who’ll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression Chapter 17. What to Do When You’re Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests Chapter 18. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About Chapter 19. A Statistical Software Sampler Part V. Ten Things You’ll Want to Know and Remember Chapter 20. The Ten (or More) Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff Chapter 21. The Ten Commandments of Data Collection Appendix A: SPSS in Less Than 30 Minutes Appendix B: Tables Appendix C: Data Sets Appendix D: Answers to Practice Questions