Interpreting Basic Statistics: A Workbook Based on Excerpts from Journal Articles

Interpreting Basic Statistics provides students with valuable practice in interpreting statistical reporting, with a broad array of concepts, up-to-date journal excerpts, data visualization, and ancillary materials. Each exercise contains three central components: an introduction, a brief excerpt, and questions. The questions promote learning by helping students interpret information, perform calculations, critique data-reporting techniques, and evaluate procedures.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Interpreting Basic Statistics provides students with invaluable practice in interpreting statistical reporting as it appears in peer-reviewed journals. The ninth edition of this book offers a comprehensive coverage of fundamental statistical concepts, drawing from the New Statistics. It includes up-to-date journal excerpts reflecting contemporary styles in statistical reporting, with a strong emphasis on data visualization. Ancillary materials include data sets with nearly two hours of accompanying tutorial videos, designed to help students and instructors apply the lessons from the book to real-life scenarios.

Each of the 63 exercises in the book comprises three central components: an introduction to a statistical concept, a brief excerpt from a published research article that utilizes the statistical concept, and a set of questions (with answers) that guide students into deeper learning about the concept. The questions on the journal excerpts promote learning by assisting students in interpreting information in tables and figures, performing simple calculations to further their interpretations, critiquing data-reporting techniques, and evaluating procedures used to collect data.

The questions in each exercise are divided into two parts: Factual Questions and Questions for Discussion. The Factual Questions require careful reading for details, while the discussion questions demonstrate that interpreting statistics is more than a mathematical exercise. These questions require students to apply good judgment and statistical reasoning to arrive at appropriate interpretations. Each exercise covers a limited number of topics, making it easy to coordinate the exercises with lectures or a traditional statistics textbook.

By engaging with the exercises and accompanying materials, students develop a strong foundation in statistical interpretation and analysis, which is essential for making informed decisions based on data in various fields.

Weight: 496g
Dimension: 177 x 253 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367561970
Edition number: 9 New edition