Intermediate Statistics
A Conceptual Course
- Brett W. Pelham - Georgetown University, USA, Montgomery College, USA
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Hands on Data Analysis: A Second Course in Statistics is a student-friendly text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It begins with an introductory chapter that reviews descriptive and inferential statistics in plain language, avoiding extensive emphasis on complex formulas. The remainder of the text covers 13 different statistical topics ranging from descriptive statistics to advanced multiple regression analysis and path analysis. Each chapter contains a description of the logic of each set of statistical tests or procedures and then introduces students to a series of data sets using SPSS, with screen captures and detailed step-by-step instructions. Students acquire an appreciation of the logic of descriptive and inferential statistics, and an understanding of which techniques are best suited to which kinds of data or research questions.
The book is userfriendly, with examples/hypothetical studies that are very helpful and entertaining, making statistical analysis almost fun for a non-statistician. Although we do not use SPSS statistics software programming for our data analysis, the syntax and examples provided are very helpful.
