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Fundamental Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Author(s): Howard T. Tokunaga (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication Date: 3 Feb. 2015
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 816 pages
- ISBN-10: 1483318796
- ISBN-13: 9781483318790
Book Description
This book is organized into 3 general categories: the research process and how data that has been collected can be organized, presented and summarized (chapters 1 – 4); the process of conducting statistical analyses to test research questions, and hypotheses and issues and controversies regarding the process (chapters 5 – 10) and the last section which examines statistical procedures used in research situations that vary in the number of independent variables in the study, as well as how the independent and dependent variables have been measured (chapters 11 – 14). Every chapter contains learning checks which include review questions, and exercises are included at the end of every chapter to help assess what was learned.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“I like that it [Fundamental Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences] incorporates SPSS examples in each relevant chapter and gives a detailed description of how each formula is done, what the steps to each analysis is, and applying it to a real life problem…The book lays out the formulas step by step. Most students in my experience have a problem with formulas when you move beyond the simple calculation of the mean. I think that the formulas are well laid out with a step-by-step guide on how to calculate each with the appropriate explanation of each step and the final product of the equation.” — Shelly A. McGrath, University of Alabama at Birmingham
About the Author
Howard Tokunaga is Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University, where he serves as Coordinator of the MS Program in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, research methods, and I/O psychology. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology at UC Santa Cruz and his Ph.D. in psychology at UC Berkeley. In addition to his teaching, he has consulted with a number of public sector and private sector organizations on a wide variety of management and human resource issues. He is author of Moving from IBM SPSS to R and RStudio: A Statistics Companion, and co-author (with G. Keppel) of Introduction to Design and Analysis: A Student’s Handbook. In his spare time, he enjoys the outdoors, museums, live theater, and being physically, socially, and politically active as possible.
