Statistics: A Toolkit for Empiricists
A Textbook for an Introductory Course 

Gives prominent attention to

the functions of statistics, showing that they depend upon the type of research that generated the data to be analyzed
  • randomization testing, a computer-intensive method for analyzing data from a randomized experiment that works perfectly in the absence of random sampling
  • the odds ratio, a easily-understood measure of association for categorical data widely used in the biomedical literature
    • Innovative, perhaps unique organization:
  • Begins by teaching three basic methods of research and the functions that statistics serves in each:
  • generalization for sample surveys and other kinds of enumerative research
  • comparison for experimentation
  • association for correlational work
  • Presents statistical techniques for categorical data, offering a first look at the logic of description and inference:

    •     • descriptive techniques
        • inferential techniques
            • generalization
            • comparison
            • association
     
  • Continues with statistical techniques for numeric data, reviewing the logic of description and inference:

    •     • descriptive techniques
        • inferential techniques
            • generalization
            • comparison
            • association
    Accessible English

    Incorporates running study guide (questions in margins)

    Divided not into chapters artifically equalized in length but into modules, each the length appropriate to its subject

    Problems and exercises at the end of each module

    Thoroughly tested through use at Ramapo College and Manhattanville College
     
     

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