Statistical Methods for Psychology (PSY 613 Qualitative Research and Analysis in Psychology) 8th Edition

This text is formulated in such a way as to encourage use throughout a graduate career in psychology. Used in conjunction with a text on multivariate statistics, this book can be used for courses in descriptive and inferential stats, and most univariate procedures. Depending on what level you need to instruct, you can probably find what your class is looking for with this text. Highly recommended!

Thanks to my wonderful professors and great textbooks, I am now working in chemical neuroscience research at Vanderbilt University. Buy the book and study up. You'll thank yourself later. This made statistics so doable.

The writing is unnecessarily verbose instead of concise and straightforward to explain statistics. The bold words are not clearly defined, but the homework questions at the end of each chapter are thorough.

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Easy text.

I'm a student, so I cannot offer comparison between this author's tome of Statistical Methods and other similar works. I can offer how FRUSTRATING that number of bad answers in the student manual (odds) are. How you can try to work through problems in which the data promised is nowhere to be found (I'm talking to you Ex11.12.dat and all your compadres!). Chapter 7 has several flat out wrong workings to problems. Set me back HOURS AND HOURS trying to work those out and being confused in trying to LEARN from the worked examples. The editors of this book should hang their heads in shame. Expensive book, someone's success in a course, and big errors. Also what appears to be rushed mismatched re-arrangements from the last edition. I'm still looking for a table in chapter 3 or 4...here table...here table...I actually HIRED a tutor to help me with problems I had worked correctly, but couldn't reconcile with the book...Beware - if you don't have solid support from your university's professor or a stat's lab...be prepared to google, get supplemental material, and feel confused.And lesser - follow some problems through so we can compare and learn how to build a complete example from the data. This happens for a section or two, but more would be great. Also, don't offer us massively hard examples (even supplemental) and tell us to hum through what we don't understand...show us relevant problems and make it clear what we should understand based on learnings from the text and what we shouldn't.

A long-lasting effective and informative book for all of us. Almost a sacred cow for college stats for the humanitarian.

This book is a good text to pick up for Psychology students/grad students who need to have a working knowledge of the concepts behind why we run statistical tests, but who don't necessarily have a strong grasp of the mathematics. This book will be most appreciated by someone who already has a fundamental understanding of when the tests are used/how to do the tests on SPSS or SAS, but wants a better understanding of why the tests are used.