An Introduction to Statistical Concepts

The new edition of An Introduction to Statistical Concepts is designed to help students really understand statistical concepts, the situations in which they can be used, and how to apply them to data.\n\nHahs-Vaughn and Lomax discuss the most popular, along with many of the lesser-known, procedures and models, whilst also exploring nonparametric procedures used when standard assumptions are violated. They provide in-depth coverage of testing assumptions and highlight several online tools for computing statistics (e.g., effect sizes and their confidence intervals and power). This comprehensive, flexible, and accessible text includes a new chapter on mediation and moderation; expanded coverage of effect sizes; and discussions of sensitivity, specificity, false positive, and false negative, along with using the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve. In addition to instructions and screen shots for using SPSS, new to this edition is annotated script for using R. This book, noted for its crystal-clear explanations, and its inclusion of only the most crucial equations, is an invaluable resource for students undertaking a course in statistics in any number of social science and behavioral disciplines�from education, business, communication, exercise science, psychology, sociology and more. Additional ISBNs 9781138650558|9781315624358, 1138650552|1315624354, 9781315624358 An Introduction to Statistical Concepts 4th Edition by Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn; Richard G. Lomax and Publisher Routledge. ISBN: 9781317228721, 1317228723. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9781138650558, 1138650552.