ABSTRACT

• 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 interesting examples are also included.

• Computational procedures are illustrated with step-by-step, easy-to-follow examples.

• End-of-chapter exercises provide ample practice for students to master both computations and statistical concepts.

• Eliminates the need for students to buy a traditional statistics book that emphasizes inferential statistics.

• Thoroughly field-tested for student comprehension.

• This book will please you and your students with its clarity of presentation.

• Outstanding supplement for students who need to describe term project data.

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction to Statistics

chapter 2|6 pages

Percentages and Bar Graphs

chapter 3|8 pages

Shapes of Distributions

chapter 4|6 pages

The Mean: The Most Popular Average

chapter 8|8 pages

Standard Scores

chapter 9|14 pages

Scattergrams and the Pearson r

chapter 10|6 pages

The Coefficient of Determination

chapter 11|10 pages

Linear Regression

chapter 12|5 pages

Glossary of Descriptive Statistics