Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions

by Chris Spatz, James Johnston

Chris Spatz's best-selling statistics text relies on examples from the social and behavioral sciences, education, nursing/allied health, and business fields--as well as examples from everyday life--to teach students statistical reasoning and problem solving. Praised for his clear explanations, Spatz shows students how to start with a data set, identify the questions it poses, determine and carry out statistical procedures, and using plain English, tell the story the data reveal. A free CD packaged with the book provides objective questions and answers, additional problems and answers, and portals to websites with additional help.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Reference, Mathematics

420 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[Caro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Before seeing this book, statistics didn't come naturally to me. Using this book, I was able to reach an understanding of the subject and of math as a whole that I wouldn't have had otherwise. I even ended up with an A in my behavioral statistics class.

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty awesome. I understand stats fundamentals way better now. The book especially focuses on theoretical and fundamental stuff that I think other stats books kind of gloss over.

[Fahed Al Kerdi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am teaching statistics this semester for students with no statistics or mathematics background. I had an exhausting journey to find a book with topics that are really "basics" for my students, and thankfully this book has helped a lot, it is full with examples and solved problems that explained almost everything basic for a student with no statistics previous knowledge. Th helped me prepared the teaching materials thanks to the enticing writing style of the author. Highly recommended for teachers and students. Believe me, I have been through more than 10 books, non were close to the language nor to the content of this book. It covered all I needed to cover the syllabus.

[cathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

As every professor knows, there's no such thing as a perfect textbook; however, Spatz does a pretty good job of making my job easier when teaching basic stats.