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Title: Statistics Explained: A Guide for Social Science Students by Perry R. Hinton ISBN: 0-415-10286-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb!
Comment: This is the finest introduction to inferential statistics I've come across. It's highly readable without being simplistic. Perhaps some readers will want more detail, particularly about descriptive statistics. If so, I recommend Joseph Tal's book Reading Between The Numbers: Statistical Thinking in Everyday Life.
A few minor complaints about Hinton's book: he neglected to include a chapter on the use of statistics in educational testing. Such a chapter would have included information about various types of reliability and validity, and test-item discrimination and difficulty. Also missing is a discussion about factor analysis.
But these are relatively minor criticisms. Hinton's book is still an excellent text to use before tackling more thorough (and probably less readable) sources.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is what explanations are supposed to be like.
Comment: This lovely book provides a consistently straightforward and easily accessible explanation of statistics. The book takes the reader through basic concepts in a de-mystifying way, providing the intuition that got lost in the mathematics when I took statistics in college. The book strikes an excellent balance between substance and simplicity in going through the basic ideas and the math behind them, providing a role model for first explanations of substantive topics. It's nice to read a book that sticks to its task of helping the reader understand a subject broadly and thoroughly without the author seeming to be trying to impress the reader with how much he or she knows.
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Title: Principles of Research in Behavioral Science by Bernard E. Whitley ISBN: 1559342498 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $94.45 |
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Title: Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology by Richard A. Shweder ISBN: 0674884167 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Qualitative Psychology : A Practical Guide to Research Methods by Jonathan A Smith ISBN: 0761972315 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 06 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy by Philip Cushman ISBN: 0201441926 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (with CD-ROM) by David C. Howell ISBN: 0534358217 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 27 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $86.95 |
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