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Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Fifth Edition ©2021 Susan Nolan; Thomas Heinzen

Using Macmillan's highly touted LaunchPad to deliver superior content online, the brief version of Nolan and Heinzen’s text introduces students to the role of statistics in the behavioral sciences today. It is a thoroughly up-to-date presentation written specifically for behavioral
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 Behavioral statistics—as it’s actually practiced today

Using Macmillan's highly touted LaunchPad to deliver superior content online, the brief version of Nolan and Heinzen’s text introduces students to the role of statistics in the behavioral sciences today. It is a thoroughly up-to-date presentation written specifically for behavioral science students, anchored by real-world stories, a highly visual approach to presenting data, helpful mathematical and formula support, and unique immersive learning activities in LaunchPad (Which Test is Best and the new Interpreting Statistical Results). Now with a focus in every chapter on open science and data ethics, and a new final chapter on reporting and interpreting results!

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In LaunchPad

  • An interactive e-book brings together the resources students need.
  • NEW! Interpreting Statistical Results asks students to interpret statistical data from a recent research project to highlight and sharpen this important skill.
  • Which Test is Best presents findings from real-world data sets and asks students to determine the methods used to generate that data.
  • LearningCurve adaptive quizzing offers individualized question sets and feedback (linked to the e-book) for each student based on his or her correct and incorrect responses.
  • The Statistical Video Series (StatClips, StatClips Examples, and Statistically Speaking Snapshots) illustrates key statistical concepts and helps students visualize statistics in real-world scenarios.
  • StatsClips video tutorials combine interesting scenarios, dynamic animation, and creator Dr. Alan Dabney’s clear and thoughtful explanation of key statistical concepts
  • Statistical tools, including StatTutor tutorials, Applets, CrunchIt statistical software, and multiple data sets.


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IN THE TEXT
Extensive pedagogy with thousands of exercises

  • Pedagogy  emphasizes mastering concepts, then gives students multiple step-by-step examples of the process of each statistical method, including the mathematical calculations.
  • Extensive Check Your Learning exercises at the end of each section of the chapter help students master content before moving on.
  • End-of-chapter exercises have four tiers (Clarifying the Concepts; Calculating the Statistics; Applying the Concepts; and Putting it All Together) to help students fully master the content.

New to This Edition

New in LaunchPad—Interpreting Statistical Results
This new digital activity asks students to interpret statistical data from a recent research project to highlight and sharpen this important skill.

New Consultant, Kelly Goedert
A  Professor of Psychology at Seton Hall University, where she is also a faculty member in the Data Visualization and Analysis program, Goedert serves as an advisor for each chapter of the text. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She is a fellow of the Eastern Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.

Emphasis on Data Ethics
In response to comprehensive new guidelines encouraging transparent, ethical research, the new edition places extra emphasis on data ethics in every chapter., including discussions of:

  • Contemporary problems with statistical research, including sneaky maneuvers like HARKing and p hacking.
  • Problematic traditional methods of data analysis, such as a practice called preregistration.
  • How to be truthful when presenting or interpreting data, and how to identify when someone is being sneaky with their presentation of data.
  • Available technologies—often free—that can help researchers to become more ethical creators and interpreters of statistics.

New Chapter, Choosing and Reporting Statistics
In addition to more emphasis on data ethics throughout, the new edition adds this all new chapter, covering everything from pre-registering your study to what open-science badges tell us about the findings in a published paper. And it introduces helpful resources, including the APA's Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS; Appelbaum et al., 2018).

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Table of Contents

Preface
An Introduction to Statistics and Research Design
2. Frequency Distributions
3. Visual Displays of Data
4. Central Tendency and Variability
5. Sampling and Probability
6. The Normal Curve, Standardization, and z Scores
7. Hypothesis Testing with z Tests
8. Confidence Intervals, Effect Size, and Statistical Power
9. The Single-Sample t Test and The Paired-Samples t Test
10. The Independent-Samples t Test
11. One-Way ANOVA
12. Two-Way Between-Groups ANOVA
13. Correlation
14. Regression
15. Nonparametric Tests
16. Choosing and Reporting Statistics
Appendices
A. Reference for Basic Mathematics
B. Statistical Tables
C. Solutions to Odd-Numbered End-of-Chapter Problems
D. Solutions to Check Your Learning Problems
E. Choosing the Appropriate Statistical Test
F. Reporting Statistics
G. Building Better Graphs Using Excel
H. The Bayesian Approach to Data Analysis
Glossary
References
Index

Susan A. Nolan

Susan A. Nolan is Professor of Psychology at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Susan researches the interpersonal consequences of mental illness and the role of gender in science careers. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan is the 2021 President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and a past president of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA). She is a Fellow of the EPA, the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Association for Psychological Science. She holds an A.B. from the College of the Holy Cross and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Susan is fascinated by the applications of psychology to the “real world,” both locally and globally. She served as a representative from the APA to the United Nations for five years, and was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she and her husband have a home. She loves to travel. Susan uses the examples she encounters through these experiences in the classroom, in this textbook, and in the statistics textbooks that she co-authors. They also provide ideas for the Psychology Today blog that she co-authors on psychology research related to misinformation.

Thomas Heinzen

Tom Heinzen was a 29-year-old college freshman and a magna cum laude graduate of Rockford College. He earned his PhD in social psychology at the State University of New York at Albany in just 3 years. He published his first book on frustration and creativity in government 2 years later; was a research associate in public policy until he was fired for arguing over the shape of a graph; and then began a teaching career at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He founded the psychology club, established an undergraduate research conference, and has been awarded various teaching honors while continuing to write journal articles, books, plays, and two novels that support the teaching of general psychology and statistics. He is also the editor of Many Things to Tell You, a volume of poetry by elderly writers. Tom is a member of numerous professional societies, and is a Fellow of the APA, the EPA, the APS, and the New York Academy of Science. His wife, Donna, is a physician assistant who has volunteered her time in relief work following hurricanes Mitch and Katrina; and their daughters work in public health, teaching, and medicine.

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