Descripciones mejoradas de Syndetics:

* Students get valuable practice in interpreting statistical reporting as it actually appears in journals. In each of the 62 exercises, your students will read a brief excerpt of statistical reporting from a published research article.

* Each exercise begins with guidelines for interpreting the statistics in the excerpt.

* The questions on the excerpts promote learning by requiring students to

· interpret information in tables and figures,

· perform simple calculations to further their interpretations,

· critique data-reporting techniques, and

· evaluate procedures used to collect data.

* Each exercise covers a limited number of statistics, making it easy for you to coordinate the exercises with lectures and a main textbook.

* The questions in each exercise are divided into two parts: (1) Factual Questions and (2) Questions for Discussion. The factual questions require careful reading for details, while the discussion questions show students that interpreting statistics is more than a mathematical exercise. These questions require them to apply good judgment as well as statistical reasoning in arriving at appropriate interpretations.

* Thirteen new exercises interspersed throughout show how to interpret a greater array of statistical reporting.

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• Introduction to the Third Edition(p. vii)
• 1. Exposure of Youth to Violence: Percentage: I(p. 1)
• 2. Food Sources of Homeless Adults: Percentage: II(p. 4)
• 3. Opiate Addicts Seeking Treatment: Frequency Distribution with Percentages(p. 7)
• 4. Changes in the Incidence of Asthma: Alternatives to Percentages and Proportions(p. 10)
• 5. Drug Usage Trends: Time Series Line Graph(p. 14)
• 6. Television Viewing, Books, and Reading: Histogram(p. 17)
• 7. Monthly Suicide Rates Line Graph with Rate per 100,000(p. 20)
• 8. Norms for a Spelling Test Cumulative Percentage and Percentile Rank(p. 23)
• 9. Penalties for Providing Alcohol to Minors Mean, Median, and Range(p. 26)
• 10. Injection Drug Users and HIV Median and Interquartile Range: I(p. 29)
• 11. Adolescent Physical Abuse and Suicide Median and Interquartile Range: II(p. 32)
• 12. Nutrition of College Students and Nonstudents Mean and Standard Deviation(p. 35)
• 13. Self-Reported Height and Weight Mean, Standard Deviation, and 68% Rule(p. 38)
• 14. College Students' Procrastination Mean, Standard Deviation, and Approximate 95% and 99.7% Rules(p. 41)
• 15. Sense of Humor and Creativity Mean, Standard Deviation, and Precise 95% and 99% Rules(p. 44)
• 16. Problems of Students Absent from School T Score(p. 47)
• 17. Cooperation and Friendship: Effect Size(p. 50)
• 18. Measuring Functional Abilities of the Elderly: Scattergram(p. 53)
• 19. Relationships Among Social Variables: Correlation Coefficient(p. 57)
• 20. Academic Self-Efficacy and Social Goals: Correlation Coefficient and Coefficient of Determination: I(p. 60)
• 21. New Parents Project: Correlation Coefficient and Coefficient of Determination: II(p. 63)
• 22. Predicting College GPA: Multiple Correlation(p. 66)
• 23. Dieting, Age, and Body Fat: Linear Regression(p. 69)
• 24. Excerpts on Sampling: Bias in Sampling(p. 72)
• 25. Treatment of Depression and Anxiety: Standard Error of the Mean and 95% Confidence Interval(p. 75)
• 26. Social Traits of Hearing-Impaired Students: Standard Error of the Mean and 68%, 95%, and 99% Confidence Intervals(p. 78)
• 27. Sexual Harassment in the Navy: t Test for Independent Groups: I(p. 81)
• 28. Gender Differences in Computing: t Test for Independent Groups: II(p. 84)
• 29. Empathy Among Undergraduates: t Test for Independent Groups: III(p. 87)
• 30. Therapy for Users of Illicit Drugs: t Test for Dependent Groups(p. 90)
• 31. Correlates of Fathering Behaviors: Significance of a Correlation Coefficient: I(p. 93)
• 32. Workaholism: Significance of a Correlation Coefficient: II(p. 96)
• 33. Extracurricular Activities and Dropping Out: One-Way ANOVA(p. 99)
• 34. Gender and Age Differences in Fears: One-Way ANOVA with Confidence Intervals(p. 102)
• 35. Effectiveness of Assertiveness Training: Two-Way ANOVA: I(p. 105)
• 36. Aggression, Gender, and Ethnicity: Two-Way ANOVA: II(p. 108)
• 37. Admitting to Gun Ownership: Standard Error of a Percentage and 95% Confidence Interval(p. 111)
• 38. Cutting Class and Other Behaviors: Chi Square: I(p. 114)
• 39. Status of Women Inmates: Chi Square: II(p. 117)
• 40. Barriers to Birth Control Use: Chi Square: III(p. 120)
• 41. Depression and Nonverbal Cues: Mann-Whitney U Test(p. 123)
• 42. Effectiveness of an AIDS Prevention Program: Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Test(p. 126)