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Book Review: Elementary Applied Statistics: For Students in Behavioral Science

Book Review: Elementary Applied Statistics: For Students in Behavioral Science BOOK REVIEWS Elementary APplied Statistics: for Students in Behavioral Science. Linton C. Freeman. New York. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1965. pp. 298. $6.95. Dr. Freeman, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Syracuse University, has written this book to provide behavioral science students with a general overview of statistical applications. The work has much to commend it but, in spite of the fact that it is intended primarily as an introductory book, it appears to be rather too superficial in many places. In addition, the brevity with which much of the material is presented may, in fact, result in some difficulties for beginning students. The first section of the book introduces students to measurement scales, the concept of statistics as summarizing devices, the use of symbols, and reviews the basic rules of arithmetic. Only six pages are devoted to a con­ sideration of measurement scales and, as the remainder of the book is organized around the central theme of "measurement" (whether nominal, ordinal, or interval), this coverage might well have been more detailed. Brief accounts of frequency distributions, the graphic presentation of data (the histogram and frequency polygon), and frequency curves, serve to introduce the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Book Review: Elementary Applied Statistics: For Students in Behavioral Science

Hogben, D.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 11 (2): 2 – Jun 1, 1967
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© 1967 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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10.1177/000494416701100211
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BOOK REVIEWS Elementary APplied Statistics: for Students in Behavioral Science. Linton C. Freeman. New York. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1965. pp. 298. $6.95. Dr. Freeman, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Syracuse University, has written this book to provide behavioral science students with a general overview of statistical applications. The work has much to commend it but, in spite of the fact that it is intended primarily as an introductory book, it appears to be rather too superficial in many places. In addition, the brevity with which much of the material is presented may, in fact, result in some difficulties for beginning students. The first section of the book introduces students to measurement scales, the concept of statistics as summarizing devices, the use of symbols, and reviews the basic rules of arithmetic. Only six pages are devoted to a con­ sideration of measurement scales and, as the remainder of the book is organized around the central theme of "measurement" (whether nominal, ordinal, or interval), this coverage might well have been more detailed. Brief accounts of frequency distributions, the graphic presentation of data (the histogram and frequency polygon), and frequency curves, serve to introduce the

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