Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Key differences between 9th and 8th editions

• Period between current and previous publications: 3 years (2016 vs 2013).
• Howell's "Fundamental Statistics" was first published in 1985.
• The Ninth edition explains material in more clarified form and repeats the most important concepts.
• Updates reflect the state of the statistics science today.
• Each chapter begins with a list of important concepts to be discussed.
• New sections on:
• Calculating the confidence interval of a correlation coefficient (Chapter 9)
• R2 effect-size measures (Chapter 9)
• Multiple regression equation (Chapter 11)
• Using R for solving a multiple regression problem (Chapter 11)
• Confidence intervals can be more useful than a null hypothesis test (Chapter 12)
• Confidence limits on effect size (Chapter 14)
• Bootstrapping statistical technique (Chapter 20)