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Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

April 2011 | 432 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Designed to engage students and lower their "fear factor", Integrative Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences is a concise, user-friendly text that prepares students to use statistics in the real world. Providing depth and breadth of statistical tests, the text focuses on choosing the appropriate statistical analysis, and shows how to interpret the output and present the results.

 
About the Authors
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
Part I. Descriptive Statistics
 
1. Introduction to Statistics: What Are You Getting Into?
 
2. Getting Started With Statistics
 
3. Frequency Distributions and Graphing
 
4. The Mean and Standard Deviation
 
5. The Normal Distribution, Standardized Scores, and Probability
 
Part II. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
 
6. Sampling Distribution of the Mean and the Single-Sample z Statistic
 
7. Inferential Statistics
 
8. Single-Sample Tests
 
9. Two-Sample Tests
 
Part III. Additional Hypothesis Tests
 
10. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
 
11. Complex ANOVA Designs
 
12. Correlation and Regression
 
13. General Linear Model
 
14. Nonparametric Tests
 
15. Review
 
Homework Answers
 
Appendix: Statistical Tables
 
Glossary
 
References
 
Index

I used the book to teach one course, however, will not adopt it in future courses.
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Reasons:
- The book focusses too much on ANOVAs and related methods. Regressions are just mentioned on the side. This is a serious downside.
- The book contains serious mistakes in the example exercises. Some answers simply don't match the questions.
- The book is written in a language that is meant to make scary statstics less scary. In a way I like this approach; however, the authors overdo it. Some parts are almost patronizing.

Dr Annelies Blom
Sozialwissenschaften, University of Kaiserslautern
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This book is fantastic. I teach geographers who need stats for their research and they always struggle with selecting the proper test, this book offers exactly that. Excellent textbook!

Dr Arika Ligmann-Zielinska
Geography Dept, Michigan State University
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Clear and concise with a focus on social sciences.

Dr Christian Steinmetz
Leadership Found Policy Dept, University of Virginia
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Looking for Blackboard-friendly book

Dr David Gilliam
Psychology Dept, University of Northern Colorado
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Our current text from Sage \Stats for People Who (Think They) Hate Stats" will be used again for the fall semester, 2011. The Instructor for the course is currently satisfied with this text from Sage.

Dr John Dollar
Human Development Dept, Northwestern State University
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This text, although a good one, does not differ significantly from the one that I am currently using.

Dr Kelly Harrison
Psychology Dept, Virginia Polytechnic Institution / State University
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coverage of topics, organization, balance of technical information and hands on application, price

Dr Leslie Gill
Psychology, Eastern New Mexico University
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Need more sociological statistical methods including binary logistic regression.

Dr Michael Garr
Social Science Dept, Wilkes University
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When individual graduate students require statistical analysis, then I require them to purchase this text. It is easy to understand and concepts have been explained well. Also, this text is helpful for students in selecting the appropriate statistical tools for their projects.

Dr Rita McNeil
Human Resource Train Dev Dept, Idaho State University - Pocatello
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A book that is leaning more towards analysis of health research would work better for my students.

Dr Stella Iwuagwu
Health Sciences Dept, Cleveland State University
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Key features

  • Provides broader coverage than most concise statistics texts: Basic descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and basic inferential statistics are covered along with more advanced topics such as correlation, regression, non-parametric statistics, multivariate statistics, and general linear modeling.

  • Emphasizes choosing the appropriate statistical test: This unique emphasis includes conceptual material, assumptions, homework exercises, and a helpful "choose-the-appropriate-test" flowchart.

  • Focuses on the interpretation of results from both Excel and SPSS outputs: Helping students to better interpret and analyze statistics, important calculations are also done by hand to help students grasp the underlying concepts.

  • Class-tested with more than a thousand students: The organization of the material and the level of depth and breadth were tested with the authors' students, who engaged with the easy-to-read narrative style.

  • Includes end-of-chapter Homework Exercises: 15-30 problems per chapter (including many for Excel and SPSS), help students fully grasp the content of each chapter.