Hi John-
I used it for Intro. to Stats. with great success. It takes a different
approach (I think) than most stats books for the behavioral sciences.
A fair amount of time is spent on probability, chance variability &
sampling error, i.e. a more theoretical understanding of statistics.
For that reason, it may be considered a harder book than standard
Psych. Stats. books. It also doesn't cover as much material- ANOVA
is not discussed for example, so you have to suppliment (and one or
two chapters could be skipped).
This book is used extensively for Intro. Stats where I taught (graduate
school, NYU), so I had been a TA with the book before. I had also
TA'd with other books and liked this one more.
It is loaded with examples (albeit non-psychological) and a fun read. I found
the workbook problems to be really good too.
Since I am very new to this I'd be interested in hearing what others
think.
Patrick
At 07:59 AM 4/22/99 -0500, John W. Kulig wrote:
>Has anyone ever used Freedman, Pisani, Purves (& Adhikari) _Statistics_
>(1978, 1991, 1998, Norton) for an introductory psychology statistics course?
>If so, I am curious what your experience with it was.
>
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