Fundamentals of Descriptive StatisticsEdizione 1

• 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.