
Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
5th Edition
By: Susan Nolan, Thomas Heinzen
Paperback | 1 January 2020 | Edition Number 5
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Behavioral statistics—as it’s actually practiced today
Using Macmillan's highly touted LaunchPad to deliver superior content online, the brief version of Nolan and Heinzen’s text introduces students to the role of statistics in the behavioral sciences today. It is a thoroughly up-to-date presentation written specifically for behavioral science students, anchored by real-world stories, a highly visual approach to presenting data, helpful mathematical and formula support, and unique immersive learning activities in LaunchPad (Which Test is Best and the new Interpreting Statistical Results). Now with a focus in every chapter on open science and data ethics, and a new final chapter on reporting and interpreting results!
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In LaunchPad
- An interactive e-book brings together the resources students need.
- NEW! Interpreting Statistical Results asks students to interpret statistical data from a recent research project to highlight and sharpen this important skill.
- Which Test is Best presents findings from real-world data sets and asks students to determine the methods used to generate that data.
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing offers individualized question sets and feedback (linked to the e-book) for each student based on his or her correct and incorrect responses.
- The Statistical Video Series (StatClips, StatClips Examples, and Statistically Speaking Snapshots) illustrates key statistical concepts and helps students visualize statistics in real-world scenarios.
- StatsClips video tutorials combine interesting scenarios, dynamic animation, and creator Dr. Alan Dabney’s clear and thoughtful explanation of key statistical concepts
- Statistical tools, including StatTutor tutorials, Applets, CrunchIt statistical software, and multiple data sets.
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IN THE TEXT
Extensive pedagogy with thousands of exercises
- Pedagogy emphasizes mastering concepts, then gives students multiple step-by-step examples of the process of each statistical method, including the mathematical calculations.
- Extensive Check Your Learning exercises at the end of each section of the chapter help students master content before moving on.
- End-of-chapter exercises have four tiers (Clarifying the Concepts; Calculating the Statistics; Applying the Concepts; and Putting it All Together) to help students fully master the content.
Susan Nolan turned to psychology after suffering a career-ending accident on her second workday as a bicycle messenger. Susan graduated from the College of Holy Cross and earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Northwestern University. She studies mental health stigma as well as the role of gender in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan is a professor of psychology at Seton Hall University. She served as a representative from the American Psychological Association (APA) to the United Nations and a past president of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2015-2016 and in Australia in 2023. She is a fellow of the EPA, the APA, and the Association for Psychological Science. Susan’s academic schedule allows her to pursue her love of travel. She has ridden her bicycle across the United States (despite her earlier crash), swapped apartments to live in Montréal, and explored the Adriatic coast in a 1985 Volkswagen Scirocco. She and her husband, Ivan Bojanic, travel frequently to Bosnia and Herzegovina where they own a small house on the Vrbas River in the city of Banja Luka.
Tom Heinzen was a 29-year-old college freshman and a magna cum laude graduate of Rockford College. He earned his PhD in social psychology at the State University of New York at Albany in just 3 years. He published his first book on frustration and creativity in government 2 years later; was a research associate in public policy until he was fired for arguing over the shape of a graph; and then began a teaching career at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He founded the psychology club, established an undergraduate research conference, and has been awarded various teaching honors while continuing to write journal articles, books, plays, and two novels that support the teaching of general psychology and statistics. He is also the editor of Many Things to Tell You, a volume of poetry by elderly writers. Tom is a member of numerous professional societies, and is a Fellow of the APA, the EPA, the APS, and the New York Academy of Science. His wife, Donna, is a physician assistant who has volunteered her time in relief work following hurricanes Mitch and Katrina; and their daughters work in public health, teaching, and medicine.
ISBN: 9781319247195
ISBN-10: 1319247199
Published: 1st January 2020
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 736
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 5
Dimensions (cm): 2.2 x 20.1 x 23.1
Weight (kg): 1.17
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