Fundamentals of Descriptive Statistics

• Do your students need to organize and summarize data for term projects? Will they need to perform these tasks on the job? This book gives them thorough preparation.

• In twelve short chapters, your students will learn the purposes of descriptive statistics, their calculation, and proper interpretation.

• Actual data on the emotional health of foster-care adolescents are used throughout the book to illustrate various ways of deriving meaning from the data with descriptive statistics. Other i...