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Statistics Explained: A Guide for Social Science Students

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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
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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

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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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