This book introduces statistical methods to students majoring in social science disciplines. With an emphasis on concepts and applications, this book assumes the reader has no previous knowledge of statistics and only a minimal mathematical background. The 6th Edition gives examples and exercises with a variety of “real data.” It includes more illustrations of statistical software for computations and takes advantage of the outstanding applets to explain key concepts, such as sampling distributions and conducting basic data analyses. It continues to downplay mathematics–often a stumbling block for students–while avoiding reliance on an overly simplistic recipe-based approach to statistics.
