Comprehending Behavioral Statistics (with CD)

Russell T. Hurlburt's textbook is written for students who often dread statistics. Instead of relying on a single method, it combines several approaches that make statistical ideas easier to follow, aiming to help readers reason about them clearly and with growing confidence. This third edition comes with a free Personal Trainer CD.

Each concept builds on the ones before it, and the material returns to key ideas repeatedly so that later chapters draw on earlier ones. Hurlburt's eyeball-estimation method asks readers to make educated guesses about results before doing exact calculations. Students who learn best by listening can use the audio-visual lectures, called lectlets, that accompany the text.

The CD holds 43 lectlets that cover the book's concepts, and students can use them to prepare for class, revisit material they missed, or review before exams. It also includes ESTAT, the estimation software that gives the approximate size of a statistic without a calculator or statistical tables, along with datagen, a computation program, and interactive review material with multiple choice quizzes.