Fundamentals of Descriptive Statistics

- 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.

Zealure Holcomb

Chapter 1: Introduction to Statistics Chapter 2: Percentages and Bar Graphs Chapter 3: Shapes of Distributions Chapter 4: The Mean: The Most Popular Average Chapter 5: The Median and Mode: Alternatives to the Mean Chapter 6: The Standard Deviation: First Cousin of the Mean Chapter 7: The Range, Quartiles, and Interquartile Range Chapter 8: Standard Scores Chapter 9: Scattergrams and the Pearson r Chapter 10: The Coefficient of Determination Chapter 11: Linear Regression Chapter 12: Glossary of Descriptive Statistics Appendix A: Formula for the Interpolated Median Appendix B: Computational Formula for the Standard Deviation Appendix C: Computational Formula for the Pearson r Index