Key Features:

End-of-chapter exercises include both problems of interpretation and numerical problems that can be solved via hand calculations.

For instructors and students interested in practical data analysis, data sets and practice problems are available from Springer Publishing Companyís website with instructions in SPSS, STATA, and SAS formats.

At the end of each chapter is a ìLiterature Applicationî text box with interpretation questions about a recent research article that highlights the statistical model discussed in the chapter.

Throughout the book, text boxes highlight the most important algebraic formulas useful in interpreting statistical methods.

A chapter on data management practices and ethical issues of privacy maintenance is included.

Nine appendices provide tables of major probability distributions, for example, normal, t- and F-distributions, and algebraic derivations of some of the most important results in statistics.