Fundamentals of Descriptive Statistics [Paperback]

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: Introduction to Statistics

Chapter 2: Percentages and Bar Graphs

Chapter 3: Shapes of Distributions

Chapter 4: The Mean: The Most Popular Average

Chapter 5: The Median and Mode: Alternatives to the Mean

Chapter 6: The Standard Deviation: First Cousin of the Mean

Chapter 7: The Range, Quartiles, and Interquartile Range

Chapter 8: Standard Scores

Chapter 9: Scattergrams and the Pearson r

Chapter 10: The Coefficient of Determination

Chapter 11: Linear Regression

Chapter 12: Glossary of Descriptive Statistics

Appendix A: Formula for the Interpolated Median

Appendix B: Computational Formula for the Standard Deviation

Appendix C: Computational“#