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Visit www.sagepub.com to explore our complete catalog. 11 TEXTBOOKS & HANDBOOKS Videos to boost comprehension and make learning easier! Introduction to Statistics Neil J. Salkind takes the fear out of statistics with a fun and approachable style! Learn more at sagepub.com/salkind. UPDATED EDITION OF BEST SELLER STATISTICS FOR PEOPLE WHO (THINK THEY) HATE STATISTICS SIXTH EDITION Neil J. Salkind, The University of Kansas The Sixth Edition of Neil J. Salkind's best-selling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics eases student anxiety around an often intimidating subject with a humorous, personable, and informative approach. Salkind guides students through various statistical procedures, beginning with descriptive statistics, correlation, and graphical representation of data, and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance. New to this edition is an introduction to working with large data sets and videos of the author demonstrating the various statistical techniques (available via the accompanying free interactive eBook). CONTENTS PART I: YIPPEE! I'M IN STATISTICS / 1. Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You / PART II: SIGMA FREUD AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS / 2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages / 3. Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability / 4. A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words / 5. Ice Cream and Crime: Correlation Coeffi cients / 6. Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity / PART III: TAKING CHANCES FOR FUN AND PROFIT / 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions / 8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why it Counts / PART IV: SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT: USING INFERENTIAL STATISTICS / 9. Signifi cantly Signifi cant: What it Means for You and Me / 10. Only the Lonely: The One Sample Z-Test / 11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups / 12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups / 13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance / 14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance—A Brief Introduction / 15. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coeffi cient / 16. Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression / 17. Big Data (Tentative Title) / 18. What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests / 19. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About / 20. A Statistical Software Sampler / PART V: TEN THINGS YOU'LL WANT TO KNOW AND REMEMBER / 21. The 10 (or More) Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff / 22. The 10 Commandments of Data Collection / Appendix A: SPSS in Less Than 30 Minutes / Appendix B: Tables / Appendix C: Data Sets / Appendix D: Answers to Practice Questions / Appendix E: Math: Just the Basics PAPERBACK + FREE INTERACTIVE eBOOK ISBN: 978-1-5063-6445-2 • SEPTEMBER 2016 • 552 PAGES • • • UPDATED EDITION OF BEST SELLER STATISTICS FOR PEOPLE WHO (THINK THEY) HATE STATISTICS: Using Microsoft Excel 2016 FOURTH EDITION Neil J. Salkind, The University of Kansas Based on Neil J. Salkind's best-selling text, Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, this adapted Excel 2016 version presents an often intimidating and diffi cult subject in a way that is clear, informative, and personable. Researchers and students will appreciate the book's unhurried pace and thorough, friendly presentation. Opening with an introduction to Excel 2016, including functions and formulas, this edition shows students how to install the Excel Data Analysis Tools option to access a host of useful analytical techniques and then walks them through various statistical procedures. CONTENTS Visit sagepub.com/salkind to access the table of contents. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4833-7408-6 • FEBRUARY 2016 • 544 PAGES • • Videos to boost comprehension and make learning easier! Neil J. Salkind takes the fear out of statistics with a fun and approachable style! Learn more at sagepub.com/salkind. UPDATED EDITION OF BEST SELLER STATISTICS FOR PEOPLE WHO (THINK THEY) HATE STATISTICS SIXTH EDITION Neil J. Salkind, The University of Kansas The Sixth Edition of Neil J. Salkind's best-selling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics eases student anxiety around an often intimidating subject with a humorous, personable, and informative approach. Salkind guides students through various statistical procedures, beginning with descriptive statistics, correlation, and graphical representation of data, and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance. New to this edition is an introduction to working with large data sets and videos of the author demonstrating the various statistical techniques (available via the accompanying free interactive eBook). CONTENTS PART I: YIPPEE! I'M IN STATISTICS / 1. Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You / PART II: SIGMA FREUD AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS / 2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages / 3. Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability / 4. A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words / 5. Ice Cream and Crime: Correlation Coeffi cients / 6. Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity / PART III: TAKING CHANCES FOR FUN AND PROFIT / 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions / 8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why it Counts / PART IV: SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT: USING INFERENTIAL STATISTICS / 9. Signifi cantly Signifi cant: What it Means for You and Me / 10. Only the Lonely: The One Sample Z-Test / 11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups / 12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups / 13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance / 14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance—A Brief Introduction / 15. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coeffi cient / 16. Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression / 17. Big Data (Tentative Title) / 18. What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests / 19. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About / 20. A Statistical Software Sampler / PART V: TEN THINGS YOU'LL WANT TO KNOW AND REMEMBER / 21. The 10 (or More) Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff / 22. The 10 Commandments of Data Collection / Appendix A: SPSS in Less Than 30 Minutes / Appendix B: Tables / Appendix C: Data Sets / Appendix D: Answers to Practice Questions / Appendix E: Math: Just the Basics PAPERBACK + FREE INTERACTIVE eBOOK ISBN: 978-1-5063-6445-2 • SEPTEMBER 2016 • 552 PAGES • • • NEW! NEW! NEW! Get the FREE Interactive eBook and give your students access to videos featuring Neil J. Salkind illustrating the concepts covered in the book. Order using the Print + FREE Interactive eBook ISBN: 978-1-5063-6445-2.

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