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- Overview:
- This work has been superseded by Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences available from https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/25/.
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We are constantly bombarded by information, and finding a way to filter that information in an objective way is crucial to surviving this onslaught with your sanity intact. This is what statistics, and logic we use in it, enables us to do. Through the lens of statistics, we learn to find the signal hidden in the noise when it is there and to know when an apparent trend or pattern is really just randomness. The study of statistics involves math and relies upon calculations of numbers. But it also relies heavily on how the numbers are chosen and how the statistics are interpreted.
This work was created as part of the University of Missouri’s Affordable and Open Access Educational Resources Initiative (https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/aa/oer). The contents of this work have been adapted from the following Open Access Resources: Online Statistics Education: A Multimedia Course of Study (http://onlinestatbook.com/). Project Leader: David M. Lane, Rice University. Changes to the original works were made by Dr. Garett C. Foster in the Department of Psychological Sciences to tailor the text to fit the needs of the introductory statistics course for psychology majors at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Materials from the original sources have been combined, reorganized, and added to by the current author, and any conceptual, mathematical, or typographical errors are the responsibility of the current author.
- Subject:
- Statistics and Probability, Psychology
- Level:
- Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Author:
- Dan Osherson, Foster Garett C, Garett C Foster, Hebl Mikki, Mikki Hebl, Rice University, Rudy Guerra, Scott David, University Of Missouri-st Louis, Zimmer Heidi
- Provider:
- University of Missouri St. Louis
- Date Added:
- 11/13/2018
- License:
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Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- eBook
on May 08, 08:35pm Evaluation
Quality of Technological Interactivity: Strong (2)
It is visually appealing, the graphs and charts are well done. The text is clear and easy to read. The text has distinct chapters and subheadings, and some reference to previous chapters is necessary in a statistics book. The book is not overly self-referential.
on May 08, 08:35pm Evaluation
Quality of Instructional and Practice Exercises: Strong (2)
My main purpose for using a statistics textbook is so that students have access to a reference source, but also to provide practice problems. The problems are good, but not as many as I would like. Plus I think in order to get the answers to the even questions you have to contact the author of the book because instructor information is not easy to access (good if you plan on using those questions for homework).