{"product_id":"essential-statistics-9780130994226","title":"Essential Statistics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis reader-friendly book covers all information essential to statistics in the social sciences  from z-tests to the two-way ANOVA. It presents material through a conversational style approach  focusing on reducing anxiety about statistics  making statistics relevant and interesting  and incorporating SPSS to show users how to analyze data efficiently. To encourage readers enthusiasm of statistics and hold their interest  this book includes only those analyses that are necessary to build skills or will likely be used by them in the future. Part I  the Introduction  defines many research terms  and introduces math. The second part  DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS  introduces classifications of variables  simple frequency tables and graphs  shapes of distributions  measures of central tendency and variability  descriptive z-scores   and simple frequency distributions. Part III  INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: EXPERIMENTS AND QUASI-EXPERIMENTS covers probability  hypothesis testing  t-tests  and ANOVAs by hand and using SPSS. The fourth section  INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: CORRELATIONAL RESEARCH  covers correlation  linear regression  and chi squared. The fifth section offers APPENDICES to cover additional designs: the one-way repeated-measures ANOVA  as well as multiple linear regression. SPSS layout  data analysis  and output for these designs are also covered. For statisticians in the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279701368885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0130994227","price":124.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780130994226.jpg?v=1780606995","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/essential-statistics-9780130994226","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}